By Frederick W. Norris
Gregory Nazianzen's Theological Orations, real classics, display not just the educational and religion in their writer, but additionally his quarrels with Neo-Arians, Pneumatomachians, pagans, and different rivals at Constantinople within the overdue fourth century C.E. This quantity is split into 3 elements. the 1st deals a survey of Gregory's lifestyles and works, his orientation as a philosophical rhetorician, an summary of his theology, the correct perspectives of his significant rivals, and the manuscript culture of those orations. the second one is a observation that concentrates at the context and movement of his arguments approximately paideia and theology. The 3rd is a brand new English translation, the 1st entire one, that inspires the logical and rhetorical strength of Nazianzen and during its Biblical citations indicates the significance of scripture within the debates.
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