The Library
1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
201–300
1 work
c. 260–270
Greek
Gregory Thaumaturgus · c. 213–c. 270
A short trinitarian confession said to have been given to Gregory in a vision, stating the full equality of the three without the philosophical apparatus of the next century.
301–400
6 works
c. 364
Greek
Basil the Great · c. 330–379
A reply to the claim that human beings can know the essence of God as God knows it, distinguishing what God is in himself from what can be known of him through his activities.
c. 378
Greek
Basil the Great · c. 330–379
Nine sermons on the six days of creation, preached morning and evening to a working congregation, refusing allegory and dwelling instead on the natural world as it actually is.
379
Greek
De Hominis Opificio
Gregory of Nyssa · c. 335–c. 395
Written to complete his brother Basil's work on the six days, on what it means that humanity is made in the image of God, and on the relation of body, soul, and sexual difference.
380
Greek
Gregory of Nazianzus · c. 329–390
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.
c. 381
Greek
Gregory of Nyssa · c. 335–c. 395
A brother's account of his elder sister, who refused marriage, turned the family estate into a community, taught her brothers theology, and died in poverty by choice.
c. 390
Greek
Gregory of Nyssa · c. 335–c. 395
Moses read twice — once as history, once as the soul's ascent — climbing from the burning bush into the dark cloud where God is known precisely as unknowable.
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