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Artykuł stanowi fragment rozprawy doktorskiej pt. Ideał kobiety w greckiej literaturze patrystycznej IV i początku V wieku (w świetle pism Kapadockich Ojców Kościoła i Jana Chryzostoma, pisanej pod kierunkiem Pana prof. dr. hab. Macieja Kokoszki.
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Gregory of Nyssa is the author of his sister, Macrina’s biography. Already as a young girl she decided to lead an ascetic life. The bishop, however, did not describe the fate and experiences of the woman who achieved the ideal of religiousness breaking with the surrounding world and devoting herself entirely to God. The role of a virgin leading a community of nuns was definitely the most important role appointed to Macrina by her brother. In his works, however, especially in the Vita, she was portrayed in a context of the community of virgins as well as her own family. Therefore she was presented as a wife, widow, mother but also a caring daughter and sister. Gregory, casting her in all these roles, added value to Christian marriage, maternity and bringing up children. Macrina’s martyrdom and thaumaturgy were to prove that thanks to her religiousness and grace from God she predominated over other women. The bishop did not hesitate to place her also above outstanding men and he made her their teacher. The way he did it was to convince his readers that she was in fact the author of the teaching about soul and resurrection. Macrina became at the same time the best example of realizing this theological concept. She did not stay indifferent to her relatives’ death, but, on the other hand, she did not allow the sorrow after the loss to rule her mind. Gregory, admiring his sister’s attitude, taught that a Christian should not care about earthly matters. On the other hand, he excluded complete apatheia and showed how meaningful love to the other man was. Gregory’s works concerning Macrina provide his definition of Christian philosophy. It is ascetic life concentrated on prayer and physical work and deep faith that resurrection will restore the original, ideal state which was experienced by man in paradise before the fall. It allows people to exist almost like the angels. Macrina, achieving the highest stage in the development of her spirituality, approached the ideal. Gregory claimed that only her body differentiated her from angels. The bishop claimed that Macrina was better than any of representatives of the female sex, therefore, it was hard to call her a woman. It means that for her brother she became more similar to angels, than to human beings.
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Scholars usually treat writings about Macrina the Younger as sources of information about historical events and persons. In my opinion, all four sources about Macrina were written according to the rules of literary genres that do not have as their objective to report history but have other purposes such as edification, polemics or honouring somebody. In addition to that, Macrina did not appear in many other sources in which she should have been mentioned if she had been an inspirer and leader of monasticism in Pontus. I think that Macrina, as described by Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus, was invented by them in order to substitute the true inspirer and leader of asceticism in Pontus – Eustathius of Sebastea. 
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Badacze zwykle traktują dzieła dotyczące Makryny Młodszej jako skarbnicę informacji na temat historycznych wydarzeń i osób. Moim zdaniem jednak każde z tych czterech pism zostało napisane zgodnie z zasadami gatunków literackich, których celem nie było i nie miało być opisywanie historii, ale które miały zupełnie inne zadania takie jak zachęta moralna, polemika czy uhonorowanie kogoś. Z drugiej strony Makryna Młodsza nie pojawia się w wielu innych źródłach, w których z pewnością zostałaby wspomniana, gdyby rzeczywiście była inspiratorką i liderką monastycyzmu w Poncie. Sądzę, że Makryna opisana przez Grzegorza z Nyssy i Grzegorza z Nazjanzu została przez nich wymyślona po to, by zastąpić prawdziwego inspiratora i lidera ascetyzmu pontyjskiego – Eustacjusza z Sebasty.
Vox Patrum
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2013
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vol. 60
359-383
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In the following article I try to investigate how the literary means used by Gregory of Nyssa in his works, especially the Life of St. Macrina, the Dialogue about Soul and Resurrection and the Letter 19. are related to the tradition of depic­ting heroic woman. In the first part of this paper I consider biblical and martyro­logical literature, ancient novels, dramas and moralistic works of Plutarch. In the second part I gain a closer look into relations between the creation of Macrina and other hagiographical works of the same time. My purposes are complex. Firstly, I would like to determine the main differences of male and female hero’s narrations. Secondly, I try to examine how Gregory uses conventions and if he is innovative.
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