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The Journal of Theological Studies 2007 58(2):537-552; doi:10.1093/jts/flm118
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Gregory of Nyssa on the Reciprocity of the Virtues

Andrew Radde-Gallwitz

Loyola University Chicago

Correspondence: araddegallwitz{at}luc.edu


  Abstract

Readers of Gregory of Nyssa have often remarked on the significance of the virtues to his theology. However, a central aspect of his understanding of the virtues has received insufficient attention: the notion that the virtues reciprocally entail one another. It is argued that Gregory uses a single theory to describe the interrelations between the virtues both as they exist in humans and as they exist in God. This theory is the reciprocity thesis, which posits that if one virtue is present, all the virtues must be present. The possible philosophical sources for Gregory's view and some problems with it are examined.

I would like to express my gratitude for the helpful comments on an earlier draft of this essay by Lewis Ayres, Michel Barnes, Mark DelCogliano, Verna Harrison, David Sedley, and Warren Smith. I also wish to thank the staff of the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University for their generous support during the preparation of this article.


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