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Zusammenfassung
This study, presented originally in the 6th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa and now re-edited, describes the historical framework of Gregory of Nyssa’s first book of Contra Eunomium. It attempts to define the historical setting of Gregory of Nyssa’s polemic against Eunomius, in which the former followed his brother Basil’s footsteps while, at the same time, going beyond his undertaking. It is a well-researched study of the context that discloses this work’s importance in the lengthy Trinitarian and Christological controversy that took place in the second half of the fourth century. It analyzes, in the first place, Contra Eunomium I’s background inasmuch as it refers to Church history and explicitly examines, in the second place, its historical-theological background. In its pages, this paper points out Gregory’s literary education, the rhetoric roots of his whole mentality, which is crucial for the understanding of the rational and exegetical arguments of Contra Eunomium I.