Grégoire Vincent

This article by Grégoire Vincent offers an analytical study of the soteriology of Nicholas Cabasilas, a fourteenth-century Byzantine theologian, based on his two main works, the *Life in Christ* and his homilies on the Mother of God. The author examines the various soteriological figures present in this work — ransom paid to the devil, restoration of divine honor, victory over sin — and refutes the interpretation, defended notably by Lot-Borodine and Congourdeau, according to which Cabasilas is indebted to the Anselmian theory of satisfaction. Drawing on a semantic analysis of the original Greek, Vincent demonstrates that Cabasilian soteriology remains fully Eastern, centered on divine philanthropy and deification. The article also highlights the distinctive soteriological role granted by Cabasilas to the Mother of God, presented as a figure of a humanity victorious over sin even before the Incarnation.

This article examines the notion of recapitulation (_Anakephaléosis_) in the eschatological thought of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, two theologians whose intellectual kinship does not preclude profound doctrinal divergences. The study adopts a comparative and analytical approach, drawing on the original texts of both authors. The central idea is that the two thinkers interpret this concept in radically different ways: in Origen, recapitulation designates a return to the origin, with the _logikoi_ reintegrating the Logos from which they emerged; in Gregory of Nyssa, it constitutes an absolute novelty, the fruit of the Incarnation, successively encompassing humanity as individual, humanity as a whole, and the entire cosmos. The theological contribution of the article lies in its demonstration of two structurally opposed eschatologies: a circular eschatology in Origen and a linear, creative eschatology in Gregory, heir to both Irenaeus of Lyon and Origenism.