about Gregory's stance on slavery, in the book Race a Theological Account (2008): What interests me is the defining features of Gregory's vision of the just society: his unequivocal stance against 'the peculiar institution of slavery' and his call for the manumission of all slaves. I am interested in reading Gregory as a fourth century abolitionist intellectual....His outlook surpassed not only St. Paul's more moderate (but to be fair to Paul, in his moment, revolutionary) stance on the subject but also those of all ancient intellectuals -- Pagan, Jewish and Christian - from Aristotle to Cicero and from Augustine in the Christian West to his contemporary, the golden mouthed preacher himself, John Crysotom in the East. Indeed, the world would have to wait another fifteen centuries -- until the nineteenth century, late into the modern abolitionist movement -- before such an unequivocal stance against slavery would appear again. Catholic theologian and author Hans Urs von Balthasar, describes Gregory in his book Presence and Thought: An Essay on the Religious Philosophy of Gregory of Nyssa (1988):Less prolific than Origen, less cultivated than Gregory Nazianzen, less practical than Basil, Gregory of Nyssa nonetheless outstrips them all in the profundity of his thought. Bibliography The complete works of Gregory of Nyssa are published in the original Greek with Latin commentary as Gregorii Nysseni Opera: Vol. 1 - Vol. 2 - Vol. 3/1 - Vol. 3/2 - Vol. 3/3 - Opera dogmatica minora, pars III - De Anima Et Resurrectione, 2014 Publisher=Brill Editor: Andreas Spira Vol. 3/4 - Vol. 3/5 - Vol. 4/1 - Vol. 4/2 - Opera exegetica In Genesim, pars II - currently unavailable. Vol. 5 - Vol. 6 - Vol. 7/1 - Vol. 7/2 - Vol. 8/1 - Vol. 8/2 - Vol. 9 - Vol. 10/1 - Vol. 10/2 - The following are editions of English translations of Gregory's writings; Gregory of Nyssa, Homilies on Ecclesiastes: An English Version with Supporting Studies. Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (St Andrews, 5–10 September 1990). Link. References Sources Further reading Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina, London, 2012. limovia.net Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos, Life after Death . Retrieved 22 January 2012. External links Ancient Greek OCR of Gregory of Nyssa's writings in PG at the Lace repository of Mount Allison University: vol. 45 , vol. 46 Gregory of Nyssa works Gregory of Nyssa Home Page, including many English translations