This article explores whether we can speak of an aggregate Christian cosmology or doctrine of creation constructed by the Cappadocian Fathers, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa. While discouraging the possibility of identifying a perfectly contoured ‘system’ of Cappadocian cosmology, I argue that there are certain ‘first principles’ and doctrinal correlates shared by this triumvirate. More helpful is to approach their constructive theology of creation from the standpoint of its basic epistemological protocols of theologia, which lay down the ground rules for Christian language of Creator and creation, and theoria, the church's ‘sanctified intuition’ of the meaning of the world. Theoria, as ‘contemplation’ in the broadest sense, enables the Cappadocians to envision the world, through the lens of sacred history, as a theatre of tragedy and beauty, and as the matrix of the triune Creator's aspiration to bring about an ever-renewed creation.

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美、悲剧与新创造：卡帕多西亚宇宙学中的神学与沉思

本文探讨了我们是否可以谈论由卡帕多西亚教父、凯撒利亚的巴兹尔、格雷戈里·纳齐安岑 (Gregory Nazianzen) 和尼萨 (Nyssa) 的格雷戈里 (Gregory of Nyssa) 构建的综合基督教宇宙学或创造学说。虽然不鼓励确定一个完美轮廓的卡帕多奇亚宇宙学“系统”的可能性，但我认为这个三巨头共享某些“第一原则”和教义相关性。更有帮助的是从神学的基本认识论协议的角度来处理他们的建设性创造神学，该协议为造物主和创造的基督教语言以及理论，教会对世界意义的“神圣直觉”制定了基本规则. Theoria 作为最广泛意义上的“沉思”，使卡帕多西亚人能够通过神圣历史的镜头来设想世界，