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The Church Fathers · c. 382
On His Own Life
De Vita Sua
Gregory of Nazianzus · c. 329–390
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What it is
Nearly two thousand lines of autobiographical verse, unsparing about his own reluctance, his friendship with Basil, and the ecclesiastical politics that drove him out of Constantinople.
Why it lasted
The first autobiography in Christian literature and the most candid account of church politics from inside it.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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