LIFE AND DEATH FROM ADAM TO CHRIST IN THE WRITINGS OF SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA
LIFE AND DEATH FROM ADAM TO CHRIST IN THE WRITINGS OF SAINT GREGORY OF NYSSA

Summary/Abstract: Life and death are not two distinct topics, but they are one sole topic, essential for each and every of us. Saint Gregory of Nyssa, in his works, helps us to understand this subject in a better way. He takes into account the possibilities offered to man to overcome his condition as a ephemeral creature and to live in communion with God, from the perspective of immortality. He does not consider death as the end of man, because “nature was created for immortality.” Man was not created immortal in terms of his nature from the very beginning by his Creator. He was not created mortal either, because God cannot be the cause of death in the world. In fact, in original heaven, death did not exist. It fell upon the foreparents only in the moment when they transgressed the law. Adam's sin separates man from God, the only one who is eternal and immortal. Man, losing his participation in good, he also loses immortality. Death has its own way to work on people from the moment Adam fell until the Incarnation of the Son and a completely different presence and work from the moment of the coming of the “new Adam”.

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