A philosophical treatise arguing against astrological determinism. The critical text is in Gregorii Nysseni Opera III.2 ('pars 2. In illud: tunc et ipse Filius; Contra fatum; De infantibus praemature abreptis; De Pythonissa', ed. Downing, McDonough and Hörner), as shown by the HOLLIS contents of 'Opera dogmatica minora' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gregory%20of%20Nyssa%20Ad%20Graecos&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A sweep of the first 100 (relevance-sorted) of 1,079 HOLLIS records for 'Gregory of Nyssa' shows no translation of the treatise (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gregory%20of%20Nyssa&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 the only modern translation is Italian, 'Contro il fato' (2003, ita;grc), and the only English renderings are unpublished dissertations catalogued in HOLLIS, e.g. 'The Treatise of Gregory of Nyssa Contra Fatum: a critical text with prolegomena' (1952). NPNF ser. 2 vol. 5, the standard English Gregory of Nyssa volume, prints Against Eunomius, Answer to Eunomius' Second Book, On the Holy Spirit, On the Holy Trinity, On the Faith, On Virginity, On the Making of Man, On the Soul and the Resurrection, The Great Catechism, the Funeral Oration on Meletius and On the Baptism of Christ — not Contra fatum (https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf205/npnf205.toc.html).
The only English versions traced are unpublished dissertations (HOLLIS: 'The treatise of Gregory of Nyssa', and 'The Treatise of Gregory of Nyssa Contra Fatum: a critical Text with Prolegomena', 1952); neither was published as a book. PG 45 is one of the three Gregory of Nyssa volumes (PG 44-46); The archive.org item is cited at volume level: it is the Migne volume for this author (PG volume-to-author mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrologia_Graeca), but the work's exact place in the volume was not verified page by page.
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| Contro il fato | Gregory, of Nyssa, Saint, approximately 335-approximately 394. "Contro il fato." Bologna : EDB, c2003. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990093286780203941 |
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| The intellectual world of late antique Christianity : reshaping classical traditions | "The intellectual world of late antique Christianity : reshaping classical traditions." Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158482064203941 |
| The "belly-myther" of Endor : interpretations of I Kingdoms 28 in the early church | "The "belly-myther" of Endor : interpretations of I Kingdoms 28 in the early church." Atlanta, Ga. : Society of Biblical Literature, c2007. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990107762170203941 |