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On the Making of Man

St Gregory of Nyssa, NPNF II.5

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Dedication
Wherein is a Partial Inquiry into the Nature of the World, and a More Minute Exposition…
2. Why Man Appeared Last, After the Creation
That the Nature of Man is More Precious Than All the Visible Creation
That the Construction of Man Throughout Signifies His Ruling Power
5. That Man is a Likeness of the Divine Sovereignty
An Examination of the Kindred of Mind to Nature: Wherein, by Way of Digression, is…
7. Why Man is Destitute of Natural Weapons and Covering
Why Man’s Form is Upright; And that Hands Were Given Him Because of Reason; Wherein Also…
That the Form of Man Was Framed to Serve as an Instrument for the Use of Reason
10. That the Mind Works by Means of the Senses
11. That the Nature of Mind is Invisible
An Examination of the Question Where the Ruling Principle is to Be Considered to Reside;…
13. A Rationale of Sleep, of Yawning, and of Dreams
That the Mind is Not in a Part of the Body; Wherein Also is a Distinction of the…
That the Soul Proper, in Fact and Name, is the Rational Soul, While the Others are Called…
A Contemplation of the Divine Utterance Which Said—“Let Us Make Man After Our Image and…
What We Must Answer to Those Who Raise the Question—“If Procreation is After Sin, How…
That Our Irrational Passions Have Their Rise from Kindred with Irrational Nature
To Those Who Say that the Enjoyment of the Good Things We Look for Will Again Consist in…
What Was the Life in Paradise, and What Was the Forbidden Tree?
That the Resurrection is Looked for as a Consequence, Not So Much from the Declaration of…
To Those Who Say, “If the Resurrection is a Thing Excellent and Good, How is It that It…
That He Who Confesses the Beginning of the World’s Existence Must Necessarily Also Agree…
An Argument Against Those Who Say that Matter is Co-Eternal with God
How One Even of Those Who are Without May Be Brought to Believe the Scripture When…
26. That the Resurrection is Not Beyond Probability
That It is Possible, When the Human Body is Dissolved into the Elements of the Universe,…
To Those Who Say that Souls Existed Before Bodies, or that Bodies Were Formed Before…
An Establishment of the Doctrine that the Cause of the Existence of Soul and Body is One…
A Brief Examination of the Construction of Our Bodies from a Medical Point of View