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Saint Gregory the Theologian · the golden age of the Fathers · 25 parts

Select Orations, by Saint Gregory the Theologian, writing in the golden age of the Fathers, given here in 25 parts.

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Select Orations — Introduction to the 'Theological' Orations. (Gregory Nazianzen) · 16 paragraphsIntroduction to the “Theological” “It has been said with truth,” says the writer of the Article on Gregory of Nazianzus in the Dictionary of…
Select Orations — Oration 1 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 5 paragraphsI. It is the Day of the Resurrection, and my Beginning has good auspices. Let us then keep the Festival with splendour, and let us embrace one…
Select Orations — Oration 2 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 127 paragraphsIntroduction to Oration II. It is generally agreed that this oration was not intended for oral delivery. Its object was to explain and defend S.…
Select Orations — Oration 3 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 6 paragraphsTo Those Who Had Invited Him, and Not Come to Receive Him. (About Easter a.d. 362.) I. How slow you are, my friends and brethren, to come to listen…
Select Orations — Oration 7 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 39 paragraphsPanegyric on His Brother S. The date of this Oration is probably the spring of a.d.
Select Orations — Oration 8 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 33 paragraphsOn his Sister Gorgonia. The exact date of this Oration is uncertain. It is certainly (§23) later than the death of Cæsarius, a.d. 369, and previous…
Select Orations — Oration 12 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 11 paragraphsTo His Father, When He Had Entrusted to Him the Care of the Church of Nazianzus. ThisOration was delivered a.d.
Select Orations — Oration 16 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 35 paragraphsOn His Father’s Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. ThisOration belongs to the year a.d.
Select Orations — Oration 18 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 68 paragraphsOn the Death of his Father. ThisOration was delivered a.d.
Select Orations — Oration 21 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 51 paragraphsOn the Great Athanasius, Bishop of The reference in §22 to “the Council which sat first at Seleucia…and afterwards at this mighty city,” leaves no…
Select Orations — Oration 27 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 12 paragraphsThe First Theological A Preliminary Discourse Against the I. I am to speak against persons who pride themselves on their eloquence; so, to begin with…
Select Orations — Oration 28 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 42 paragraphsThe Second Theological Discourse we laid down clearly with respect to the Theologian, both what sort of character he ought to bear, and on what kind…
Select Orations — Oration 29 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 29 paragraphsThe Third Theological I. This then is what might be said to cut short our opponents’ readiness to argue and their hastiness with its consequent…
Select Orations — Oration 30 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 28 paragraphsThe Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. I. Since I have by the power of the Spirit sufficiently overthrown the…
Select Orations — Oration 33 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 19 paragraphsAgainst The Arians, and Concerning Delivered at Constantinople about the middle of the year 380. I. Where are they who reproach us with our poverty,…
Select Orations — Oration 34 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 13 paragraphsOn the Arrival of the This Oration was preached at Constantinople in 380, under the following circumstances: Peter, Patriarch of Alexandria, had sent…
Select Orations — Oration 37 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 23 paragraphsOn the Words of the Gospel, “When Jesus Had Finished These Sayings,” Etc.—S. Matt. xix. 1 The Fishermen, Himself also useth a net, and changeth place…
Select Orations — Oration 38 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 22 paragraphsOn the Theophany, or Birthday of Oration has given rise to a doubt whether it was preached on Dec. 25, 380, or on Jan. 6, 381. The word Theophania is…
Select Orations — Oration 39 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 27 paragraphsOration on the Holy Lights. Holy Lights was preached on the Festival of the Epiphany 381, and was followed the next day by that on Baptism. In the…
Select Orations — Oration 40 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 62 paragraphsThe Oration on Holy Baptism. Preached at Constantinople Jan. 6, 381, being the day following the delivery of that on the Holy Lights. I. Yesterday we…
Select Orations — Oration 41 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 23 paragraphsIt is uncertain to what year the following Oration belongs. It was, however, certainly delivered at Constantinople; the Benedictine Editors think in…
Select Orations — Oration 42 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 46 paragraphsThe Last Farewell in the Presence of the One Hundred and Fifty Bishops. ThisOration was delivered during the Second Œcumenical Council, held at…
Select Orations — Oration 43 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 132 paragraphsFuneral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. S. Basil died January 1, a.d.
Select Orations — Oration 45 (Gregory Nazianzen) · 38 paragraphsThe Second Oration on ThisOration was not, as its title would perhaps lead us to suppose, delivered immediately after the first; but an interval of…
Select Orations — The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit. (Gregory Nazianzen) · 37 paragraphsThe Fifth Theological I. Such then is the account of the Son, and in this manner He has escaped those who would stone Him, passing through the midst…

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