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Saint Gregory the Theologian · c. 380 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Gregory of Nazianzus; Archbishop of Constantinople (briefly), who presided over the First Council of Constantinople (381). One of the Three Holy Hierarchs of the Orthodox Church. The Church gives him the title "the Theologian" — shared only with St John the Evangelist and St Symeon the New Theologian. His Five Theological Orations (Orations XXVII–XXXI) are the foundational pre-Chalcedonian defence of Nicene Trinitarian theology and the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

Contents

  1. Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy(5 chapters)
  2. Correspondence with Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Cæsarea(23 chapters)
  3. Miscellaneous Letters(72 chapters)