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St. Gregory of Nazianzus · c. 380 AD

13h 6m read

Nicene

The celebrated orations of 'The Theologian,' including the five Theological Orations on the Trinity.

Table of Contents

1On Easter and His Reluctance 2Introduction to Oration II.3To Those Who Had Invited Him, and Not Come to Receive Him 4Panegyric on His Brother S. Cæsarius 5On his Sister Gorgonia 6To His Father, When He Had Entrusted to Him the Care of the Church of Nazianzus 7On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail 8On the Death of His Father 9Funeral Oration on His Father, in the Presence of S. Basil.10On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria 11Introduction to the 'Theological' Orations 12The First Theological Oration. A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians 13The Second Theological Oration 14The Third Theological Oration. On the Son 15The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son 16The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit 17Against The Arians, and Concerning Himself 18On the Arrival of the Egyptians 19On the Words of the Gospel, 'When Jesus Had Finished These Sayings,' Etc.--S. Matt. xix. 1 20On the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ 21Oration on the Holy Lights 22The Oration on Holy Baptism 23On Pentecost 24The Last Farewell in the Presence of the One Hundred and Fifty Bishops 25Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia 26The Second Oration on Easter