Festal Orations

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2008
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 194
Dimensions (l × w × h): 18.4 cm × 12.7 cm × 1.4 cm
ISBN: 978‒0‒88141‒325‒0

   
St Gregory of Nazianzus
Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Nonna Verna Harrison

Number 36 of Popular Patristics Series

“In the Orthodox church Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. AD 329–ca. 390) is known as ‘the Theologian,’ a title he shares only with the apostle and evangelist John, and is among the most honored of the saints. Together with his colleagues Basil the Great (ca. 329–379) and Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335–395), he is one of the three Cappadocian fathers, and together with Basil and John Chrysostom (ca. 347–407) he is one of the ‘three great hierarchs and ecumenical teachers’ of the Eastern church. His reputation and influence in the Byzantine world as both theologian and rhetor are unsurpassed in ways that Western scholars have sometimes overlooked. The homilies translated in this volume have arguably been the most influential of his works throughout the Orthodox church’s history.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
   Gregory’s Life and Work • Emergence of the Feast Days• Rhetoric and Liturgy • Festal Anamnesis • Festal Mimesis • A Feast without the Liturgical Calendar? • Rhetoric and Theology • The Trinity • A Systematic Theology in a Nutshell • Theological Anthropology • The Person and Work of Christ • The Translations
ORATION 1
   On Pascha and on His Slowness
ORATION 38
   On the Nativity of Christ
ORATION 39
   On the Baptism of Christ
ORATION 40
   On Baptism
ORATION 41
   On Pentecost
ORATION 45
   On Holy Pascha
Appendix
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