Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Our Father. An English Translation with Commentary and Supporting Studies: Proceedings of the 14th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Paris, 4-7 September 2018)(168 Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements)

Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Our Father are the second explanation of this central prayer of Christian worship in Greek Antiquity. Composed at the end of the 4th century, these five homilies offer a spiritual and pastoral commentary of the Pater Noster. The present volume, edited by Matthieu Cassin (Paris), Hélène Grelier-Deneux (Paris) and Françoise Vinel (Strasbourg), offers introductory materials, a new English translation, the first edition of the 15th century Latin translation by Athanasios Chalkeopoulos, together with five studies that form a commentary for the different homilies, and nineteen shorter contributions on various aspects of the text. The contributors envisage the text according to exegesis and theology, but also to philosophy, rhetoric and history of Christian communities.

Table of Contents:
Preface Previous Colloquia (1969–2014) Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part 1 Introduction Tradition néoplatonicienne et tradition chrétienne de la prière  Andrei Timotin Les Homélies sur le Notre Père : composition, unité, visée (σκοπός)  Françoise Vinel De la composition des Homélies sur le Notre Père à leurs lectures byzantines  Matthieu Cassin Part 2 Translations Introduction to the English Translation  Mark DelCogliano and Andrew Radde-Gallwitz Gregory of Nyssa, On the Our Father  Mark DelCogliano and Andrew Radde-Gallwitz The Latin Translation of Gregory of Nyssa’s De oratione dominica by Athanasius Chalkeopoulos  Francisco Bastitta Harriet and José Luis Narvaja sj Gregorii Nysseni In orationem dominicam (editio princeps)  Francisco Bastitta Harriet and José Luis Narvaja sj Part 3 Commentary of the Homilies L’ Homélie I Sur le Notre Père de Grégoire de Nysse  Hélène Grelier-Deneux Gregory of Nyssa, “Our Father in Heaven”: De oratione dominica, II (SC 348–384)  Lenka Karfíková The Trinitarian Reading of the Lord’s Prayer: The Third Homily  Giulio Maspero Homilies on the Lord’s Prayer IV: “Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is in Heaven; Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread”  Morwenna Ludlow Gregor von Nyssa, De oratione dominica 5: Darstellung und Analyse  Volker Henning Drecoll Part 4 Supporting Studies Section 1 Thematic Studies Les cinq Homélies sur le Notre Père de Grégoire de Nysse appartiennent-elles à la tradition ΠΕΡΙ ΕΥΧΗΣ ? Ou la magie de la première phrase  Christian Boudignon Convergences et divergences entre interprétation du Psautier et exégèse du Notre Père  Jean Reynard Les figures bibliques dans les Homélies sur le Notre Père de Grégoire de Nysse : comparaison avec le traité Sur la prière d’ Origène  Daniel Vigne Preghiera e comunione con Dio: un aspetto del De oratione dominica di Gregorio di Nissa visto alla luce di Stromata VII di Clemente di Alessandria  Ilaria Vigorelli Section 2 Specific Studies “Thy Kingdom Come”: The Concept of the Kingdom of God in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies On the Lord’s Prayer  Constantinos Bozinis La parrhêsia: parlare di Dio, parlare con Dio nelle opere di Gregorio di Nissa  Chiara Curzel Alienation from the Reality and Substance of Hope in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Lord’s Prayer  Scot Douglass The Homilies on the Our Father and Gregory of Nyssa’s Interpretation of Human Free Will as the Divine Image in Man  Jonathan Farrugia Section 3 Studies on Individual Homilies Whose Prayer Is Mere Babbling? Gregory of Nyssa and Origen on the battologein in Matt 6:7  Ralph Hennings The Shadow of Good Things to Come: Exodus 19–20 and Exodus 28 as Intertexts in Gregory of Nyssa’s Second and Third Homilies on the Lord’s Prayer  Judith Kovacs (†) The Source of Our Parrhesia: Christ’s High Priestly Work in De Oratione Dominica II–III  Warren Smith «Dal Figlio» (De oratione dominica, III, GNO 43,1-2; SC 424,1-2)  Giovanni Manabu Akiyama L’ unicité d’ opération chez Grégoire de Nysse : une étude d’ histoire des doctrines en marge de la troisième Homélie sur l’ oraison dominicale  Xavier Morales L’ « Esprit du Christ » d’ après la 3e Homélie de Grégoire de Nysse sur la Prière dominicale  Michel Stavrou La preghiera guarisce il morbo dell’anima: per un’interpretazione dell’Or. dom. IV di Gregorio Nisseno  Matteo Monfrinotti The Bread Demanded by Nature: Gregory of Nyssa’s Interpretation of the “Daily Bread” in the Context of Greco-Roman Moral Instruction on Moderation and Excess  Siiri Toiviainen Rø « Que ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel » (Mt 6, 10) : L’ interprétation de Grégoire de Nysse au miroir de l’ exégèse des Pères grecs  Marie-Odile Boulnois Section 4 Reception L’ hymne de la prière de Grégoire de Nysse dans trois textes mis sous les noms d’ Éphrem et de Jean Chrysostome  Guillaume Bady La antropología de Gregorio de Nisa en el Quattrocento: la traducción latina del De oratione dominica por Atanasio Chalkéopoulos y su posible recepción en Giovanni Pico  Francisco Bastitta Harriet Biblical Index Index of Ancient and Medieval Texts Index of Ancient and Medieval Names

About the Author :
Matthieu Cassin, researcher at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS, Paris), is a specialist of Gregory of Nyssa and of the transmission of Greek Patristic Texts. He also works on Greek manuscripts and library history. He has recently published a new edition and translation of the Homilies on the Our Father of Gregory of Nyssa, together with Christian Boudignon (Sources chrétiennes 596, Paris, 2018). Hélène Grelier-Deneux, Ph. D. (2008) in Greek Patristic, is Lecturer in Greek Literature at the University Paris Nanterre. She works on Gregory of Nyssa, exegetical traditions and religious controversies. At the moment, she is preparing a monography about Gregory of Nyssa against Apolinarius of Laodicea. Françoise Vinel, Emeritus Professor at Strasbourg University (Faculty of Catholic Theology) is a specialist of Gregory of Nyssa and of Bible's Interpretation in Late Antiquity. She also works on La Bible d’Alexandrie, the Septuaginta French Translation. She published Gregory of Nyssa's Homilies on Eccleclesiastes (Sources chrétiennes 416) and is preparing together with Mariette Canévet Gregory’s Homilies on the Song of Songs for Sources chrétiennes.