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In early Christian thinking negative theology was often applied for primarily polemical purposes, as Christian thinkers engaged critically with Hellenic philosophy and religion. The fundamental purpose of applying negative theology in these polemical contexts was to assert the distinction between God and everything else1. Often this polemical aspect of negative theology has been overlooked. David Palmer rightly noted that modern scholars have too often attempted to fit the negative theology of the apologetic fathers into a systematic framework “which is not in keeping with the method and purpose of the apologists themselves”2. A good example of a study that did emphasize the polemical aspect in Patristic thinking was Ronald Heine’s work on Gregory of Nyssa. According to Heine the polemics against Eunomius on the one hand and sorts of Origenism on the other shaped Gregory’s later thinking, especially his negative theology and ethics3. Heine argued, however, that the changes from the early On the Inscriptions of the Psalms (c. 377) to the late The Life of Moses (c. 390-394) are

From abstraction to unsaying: how the Eunomian controversy changed Gregory of Nyssa’s aphairetic ethics to an apophatic ethics