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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Johannes Zachhuber and Anna Marmodoro, eds., Gregory of Nyssa, On the Hexaemeron: Text, Translation, and Essays, Oxford University Press, 2025, 244 pp., $110.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780198897088.

Reviewed by Charlotte Köckert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg

The book under review is dedicated to a treatise written by the Cappadocian bishop Gregory of Nyssa (born 335/340; died after 394). In that work, the Christian intellectual develops an original Christian cosmology based on a bold and speculative interpretation of the biblical account of creation, drawing on a wide range of philosophical concepts. To date In Hexaemeron has been known primarily within the field of Gregory of Nyssa research. However, Gregory’s philosophical exposition of the doctrine of “creation out of nothing”, his subtle theory of matter and material natures, and his contention that empirical observation of physical processes allow conclusions...