Church father Gregory of Nyssa's view on religious and secular education and on their correct relationship

Saint Gregory of Nyssa stands out among theologians of the second half of the 4th century, having received the honorary title of “Father of the Fathers”, which makes us pay special attention to his works. The article focuses on the presentation of St. Gregory on the relationship between religious and secular education, transmitted on the basis of the treatise of the saint On the Life of Moses . St. Gregory believed that with the help of reason, intellectually (gnôsis), he could never know the essence of God (ousia), as the Greek philosophers believed at that time. Gregory of Nyssa believed that perfect knowledge of God is realized not through static knowledge, but always only through faith, in the category of active love. In the image of Moses, St. Gregory saw an example of a symbolic combination of secular and spiritual education, in which the first gives deep and useful knowledge for the knowledge of the world, and the second allows it to be raised to the knowledge of the Uncreated, i.e. Knowledge of God.