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On the Death of his Father.

This Oration was delivered A.D. 374. S. Gregory the elder died early in that year, according to the Greek Menæa on the 1st of January, though Clémencet and some others place his death a few months later. His wife, S. Nonna, survived him, and was present to hear the Oration, as was also S. Basil, who desired to honour one who had consecrated him to the Episcopate. The aged Saint, who died in his hundredth year, had originally belonged to a sect called Hypsistarii. Our knowledge of the existence and tenets of this sect is due to this Orationand to a few sentences in that of S. Greg. Nyssen. (c. Eunom. I. ed. 1615, p. 12), by whom they are called Hypsistians. He was converted by the prayers, influence and examp

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GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS: EPISTULAE 101-102 AD CLEDONIUM

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITAS LATERANENSIS PONTIFICIUM INSTITUTUM PATRISTICUM AUGUSTINIANUM GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS: EPISTULAE 101-102 AD CLEDONIUM Patrologia Fondamentale (sec. IV) Name: John Emokpae Adesotu Professor: G. Caruso Romae 2023 Introduction. The theological controversies of the fourth century are very important in the history and growth of the Church. It shaped the understanding of the nature of Christ and the Holy Trinity that is still being held today. They led to the consolidation of many doctrines that we still profess. The Christological controversies were not just abstract theological debates, but also had significant political implications. The disputes often spilled over into the realm of politics as different factions fought for control over the Church and sought to use their interpretation of Christology to justify their own positions of power. These controversies revolved around the question of how to understand th

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Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography

St Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 390-391) is one of the most important theologians of the early Christian Church and was without question one of the most learned men of his generation. This present study fryst vatten the first critical analysis of the man, his writings and inner life in the English language. It offers definitive insight into the mind of one of the greatest protagonists of Nicene theology, and through his extraordinary personality, opens a fönster onto the world of late antiquity and the place of the Christian Church in it.

Alongside Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers. He worked to bring unity to a church deeply divided by the Arian crisis, and to demonstrate the perennial significance of the Nicene faith. He was the chief architect of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity of co-equal persons in God and an important Christological writer whose works were definit