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Combines pastoral rhetoric and dense theology, especially on the Trinity and the identity of Christ.
Gregory Nazianzenlate 4th century4th century
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Metadata
Overview
- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Homily
- Tradition
- Eastern
- Region
- Cappadocia and Constantinople
- Original language
- Greek
- Date certainty
- Range
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Manuscript context
This text is represented here through a composite Greek witness set associated with Gregory Nazianzen and its transmission in Cappadocia and Constantinople.
Themes
Controversies
- Arian controversy
- Apollinarian controversy
Source links
Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
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web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Original language witnesses
Witness status: Composite witness set
Composite set of major theological orations available in current CTS corpus.
Open normalized witness textAdversus Eunomianos (Orat. 27)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
De Theologia (Orat. 28)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
De Filio (Orat. 29)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
De Filio (Orat. 30)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
De Spiritu Sancto (Orat. 31)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0