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Know Your Faith IV: The Fathers of the Church

Know Your Faith IV: The Fathers of the Church. Lesson 10 St Gregory the Theologian Archbishop of Constantinople. St Gregory the Theologian 329 Arianzus , Cappadocia to 392 Nazianzus, Cappadocia Known as: Gregory the Theologian Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory the Younger.

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Know Your Faith IV: The Fathers of the Church

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  1. Know Your Faith IV:The Fathers of the Church • Lesson 10 • St Gregory the Theologian • Archbishop of Constantinople

  2. St Gregory the Theologian 329 Arianzus, Cappadocia to 392 Nazianzus, Cappadocia Known as: Gregory the Theologian Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory the Younger

  3. Life of St Gregory • 329: Born in Arianzus, Cappadocia • Educated in Caesarea of Palestine, Alexandria, and Athens • Lives a monastic life in Pontus with St Basil the Great • Ordained Presbyter by his father, St Gregory of Nazianzus • St Basil consecrates him as Bishop of Sasima in Caesarea • 379: Gives the lauded Funeral Oration of • St Basil • 379: Fought heresy in Constantinople • 381: Present at 2nd Ecumenical Council as • Abp of Constantinople • 381-382: Remains in Constantinople • preaching against Arianism • 382: Retires to Nazianzus • 391: Reposes in the Lord

  4. Cappadocia: Ancient Landscape for the Eternal Faith

  5. The Ancient Regions of Greece And Asia Minor

  6. Notable Places in Cappadocia Nyssa Nazianzus SasimaComana

  7. The Second Ecumenical CouncilCommemorated on May 22 • Macedonianism: While accepting the divinity of Jesus Christ as affirmed at Nicea in 325, they denied that of the Holy Spirit which they saw as a creation of the Son, and a servant of the Father and the Son. • Apollinarianism: Belief that Jesus had a human body and lower soul (the seat of the emotions) but a divine mind. Apollinaris further taught that the souls of men were propagated by other souls, as well as their bodies. • Some political stuff between Rome and Constantinople. • Clarification to the Creed (see next slide)

  8. The Theologians of the Orthodox Church “Not to every one, my friends, does it belong to philosophize about God; not to every one; the Subject is not so cheap and low;…Not to all men, because it is permitted only to those who have been examined, and are passed masters in meditation, and who have been previously purified in soul and body, or at the very least are being purified.  For the impure to touch the pure is, we may safely say, not safe, just as it is unsafe to fix weak eyes upon the sun’s rays.” 1st Oration III

  9. Writings As listed in the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Series 2 Volume VII • Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. • On Easter and His Reluctance. • In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office. • To Those Who Had Invited Him, and Not Come to Receive Him. • Panegyric on His Brother S. Cæsarius. • On his Sister Gorgonia. • To His Father, When He Had Entrusted to Him the Care of the Church of Nazianzus. • On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. • On the Death of His Father. • On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. • Against The Arians, and Concerning Himself. • On the Arrival of the Egyptians. • On the Words of the Gospel, 'When Jesus Had Finished These Sayings,' Etc.--S. Matt. xix. 1. • On the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ. • Oration on the Holy Lights. • The Oration on Holy Baptism. • On Pentecost. • The Last Farewell in the Presence of the One Hundred and Fifty Bishops. • Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia. • The Second Oration on Easter.

  10. Writings, part II Theological Orations Letters Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy. Correspondence with Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Cæsarea. Miscellaneous Letters: To His Brother Cæsarius. To S. Gregory of Nyssa. To Eusebius Bishop of Samosata. To Sophronius, Prefect of Constantinople. To Amphilochius the Younger. To Nectarius Archbishop of Constantinople. To Theodore, Bishop of Tyana. To Nicobulus. To Olympius. • The First Theological Oration.  A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians. • The Second Theological Oration. • The Third Theological Oration.  On the Son. • The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. • The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit.

  11. Great Canon of St AndrewFor Comparison My soul, my soul arise. Why are you sleeping? The end is drawing near and you will be confounded. Arise and be watchful That Christ our God may spare you Who is everywhere and fillest all things.

  12. St Gregory’s Poetry St Gregory on his Soul PG 37, 1425-1426 You have a job to do, soul, and a great one, if you like:examine yourself, what it is you are and how you act,where you come from, and where you're going to end,and whether to live is this very life you are living, or something else besides.You have a job to do, soul: by these things cleanse your life.Make me to know God and God's mysteries.What was there before this universe, and why is this universe here for you?Where has it come from, and where is it going?You have a job to do, soul, by these things cleanse your life.How does God guide and turn the universe:or why are some things permanent, while other things flow away,and us especially, in this changing life?You have a job to do, soul: look to God alone.What was my former glory, what is this present arrogance?What will be my crown, and what the end of my life?Of these things inform me, and check the mind from wandering.A job you have to do, soul: lest you suffer in deep trouble.

  13. Discussion St Gregory the Theologian’s Theological Oration #5 On the Holy Spirit

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