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Who Was Gregory of Nyssa?

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The Cappadocian who built Nicene orthodoxy, taught that hell ends in healing, and received a halo instead of an anathema.

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Gregory, the least ambitious of them, taught rhetoric until Basil, stacking Cappadocian sees against Arianizing pressure, consecrated him bishop of the small town of Nyssa around 372.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Gregory of Nyssa; Codex Theodosianus 16.1.3

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Gregory of Nyssa was an influential orthodox bishop whose writings include universal restoration.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Gregory, On the Soul and the Resurrection; Catechetical Oration

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The mainstream scholarly reading is that Gregory genuinely taught the restoration of all (Daley, The Hope of the Early Church, 1991; Ramelli, 2013), though it is not unanimous.

Imported citation, not independently checked: B. Daley, The Hope of the Early Church (1991); I. Ramelli (2013)

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Ramelli's influential explanation runs the other way: what the sixth century condemned was a package, preexistent souls, transmigration, cyclical worlds, that Gregory never taught.

Imported citation, not independently checked: I. Ramelli, The Christian Doctrine of Apokatastasis (2013)

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