Rendering Trauma Beneficial… for Whom? Gregory of Nyssa’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs

Dasios, Maria

Rendering Trauma Beneficial… for Whom? Gregory of Nyssa’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs

dc.contributor.author	Dasios, Maria
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-19T09:23:34Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-19T09:23:34Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description.abstract	Gregory’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs offers one opportunity to trace the legacies of the compelling claim, in Galatians 6:17, that Paul bears “the marks of Christ” on his body. Gregory appeals to this verse to aid his exegesis of Song 5:7 (a violent passage he calls “repellant in its plain sense”) and develop his claims that “the wound”, after all, is “an admirable thing”. My paper probes social and ethical dimensions of this exegetical and cultural conceptual lineage. It surveys wounds and marks in Homily 12; suggests how other works by Gregory support “striking and wounding” as enacting spiritual healing (ἴασιν); considers contexts for violence in the name of guardianship and instruction in late antiquity; and closes by considering violence enacted in the name of Christianization and “civilization” in Canada’s residential schools. This study embeds Gregory’s treatment of Gal 6:17 in a larger attempt to raise critical questions about the persistence of benevolent understandings of trauma and violence across diverse Christian exegetical contexts and the harms such understandings may perpetuate.
dc.identifier.citation	„Vox Patrum”, 2024, Vol. 90, s. 85-105
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/vp.16941
dc.identifier.issn	0860-9411
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7635
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Gregory of Nyssa
dc.subject	Galatians
dc.subject	Song of Songs
dc.subject	reception
dc.subject	exegesis
dc.subject	allegory
dc.subject	trauma
dc.subject	wounds
dc.subject	blows
dc.subject	violence
dc.subject	benefit
dc.subject	instruction
dc.subject	healing
dc.subject	late antiquity
dc.subject	legacy
dc.subject	Christian
dc.title	Rendering Trauma Beneficial… for Whom? Gregory of Nyssa’s Homily 12 on the Song of Songs
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article

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