Unfassbarkeit und Erfahrbarkeit Gottes bei Gregor von Nazianz

Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390 AD), one of the most important and influential late antique church writers, distinguishes in his work between the absolutely incomprehensible nature of God and the work of God that can be experienced by humans. Nadja Heimlicher shows how the theologian makes this distinction and what he derives from it for his talk about God. Heimlicher presents a consistent account of the interplay between theoretical foundation and its practical development in Gregory of Nazianzus. While his interest in theological work lies in the question of the knowledge of God, in the context of lived faith it shifts to the striving for the experience of God and finally to union with God. One of Gregory's core concerns is that the practice of faith always precedes theology and underlies it as nourishing soil.