Re-reading Gregory of Nazianzus

Catholic University of America Press

2012

xiii, 319 p.

CUA studies in early Christianity

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

9780813219912

Gregory of Nazianzus : past, present, and future / Christopher A. Beeley -- Part 1. Theology. Systematic theology in Homeric dress : Poemata arcana / Brian E. Daley, SJ -- Illuminated from all sides by the Trinity : neglected themes in Gregory Nazianzen's trinitarian theology / Verna E.F. Harrison -- Gregory of Nazianzus and biblical interpretation / Ben Fulford -- Deciphering a recipe for biblical preaching in Oration 14 / Brian J. Matz -- Gregory's baptismal theology and the Alexandrian tradition / Everett Ferguson -- Gregory of Nazianzus, Montanism, and the Holy Spirit / William Tabbernee -- Gregory Nazianzen and philosophy, with remarks on Gregory's cynicism / Claudio Moreschini -- Part 2. History and autobiography. Historiography as devotion : Poemata de seipso / Suzanne Abrams Rebillard -- The stoning of Christ and Gregory of Nazianzus / Andrew Hofer, OP -- Bishops behaving badly : Helladius challenges Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa / Vasiliki Limberis -- The tax man and the theologian : Gregory, Hellenius, and the monks of Nazianzus / Neil McLynn -- Part 3. Legacy. On the "play" of divine providence in Gregory Nazianzen and Maximus the Confessor / Paul M. Blowers -- Gregory the theologian, Constantine the philosopher, and Byzantine missions to the Slavs / Andrea Sterk -- Emperors and priests : Gregory's Theodosius and the Macedonians / Susanna Elm -- St. Gregory the theologian and Byzantine theology / Andrew Louth -- Part 4. Epilogue. St. Gregory the comic / John A. McGuckin

Review: "Re-Reading Gregory of Nazianzus offers a collection of cutting-edge research on one of the leading figures in the early church. Long recognized as a chief architect of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the definitive articulator of the doctrine of the Trinity, Gregory "the Theologian" has been strangely neglected in modern patristic research. In recent decades Gregory has become the subject of careful study by scholars in a variety of humanistic disciplines, including theology, church history, classics, art history, and literature, and has attracted the renewed attention of Eastern and Western theologians and church leaders as well. This book, the newest volume in the CUA Studies in Early Christianity, presents original works by leading patristics scholars on a wide range of theological, historical, and cultural topics. It offers illuminating new readings of Gregory's writings, ranging from the systematic theology of Gregory's poetry to the Trinitarian doctrine found in his Festal Orations, and from his artful self-presentation in the mode of classical historiography to his later influence on Byzantine theologians and emperors." -- Publisher's description

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