Apofatyka i chrystologia. Metafizyka Grzegorza z Nyssy wobec tajemnicy jedności Chrystusa w świetle wybranych współczesnych interpretacji
Apophaticism and Christology. Gregory of Nyssa’s Metaphysics and the Mystery of Christ’s Unity in Light of Selected Contemporary Interpretations

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the Christological ramifications of Gregory of Nyssa’s metaphysical thought, articulated through the dynamic interrelation of ousia and hypostasis. The analysis unfolds in four stages: a reconstruction of Nyssa’s metaphysical architecture; an evaluation of its structural constraints when applied to Christological ontology, with particular emphasis on theosis as the transformative participation in divine life; a comparative engagement with Gregory of Nazianzus’s integrative Christology; and an account of its subsequent reception in Cyril of Alexandria and Maximus the Confessor. The discussion draws critically on the contemporary scholarship of J. Zachhuber, C.A. Beeley, and B.E. Daley, while identifying a latent systematic tension within their interpretative frameworks. It is argued that Gregory of Nyssa’s Christological articulation is shaped by an asymmetrical ontology of divine–creaturely relation: creation is construed as an infinite trajectory of ascent toward God through perpetual transformation (epektasis), whereas divine self-disclosure is not fully conceptualized in terms of the assumption of created being as a mode of divine existence. As a consequence, the novelty of the Incarnation and the personal-ontological status of the human being as called to participatory communion with God remain insufficiently thematized. Nevertheless, Nyssa’s apophatic orientation is not rejected but reconfigured within an ontological framework that privileges hypostasis as the locus of relational identity and communion.

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