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The Church Fathers · 380

The Five Theological Orations

Gregory of Nazianzus · c. 329–390

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What it is

Five sermons preached in a small chapel in an Arian-dominated Constantinople, on the limits of theological speech and on the Son and the Spirit as fully God.

Why it lasted

The reason their author is called simply the Theologian in the East, and the finest sustained trinitarian preaching ever delivered.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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