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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 192
… The veneration in which Gregory held Origen is clear enough from his panegyric, and the great regard which Origen cherished for Gregory is revealed in his epistle to the latter, written soon after Gregory's …
1,322 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 4
Henceforward the fortunes of Gregory are more closely linked with those of his great brother Basil. About a.d. 365 Basil was summoned from his retirement to act as coadjutor to Eusebius, the Metropolitan of …
2,204 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 3
… In the roll of the Nicene Fathers there is no more honoured name than that of Gregory of Nyssa. Besides the praises of his great brother Basil and of his equally great friend Gregory Nazianzen …
2,500 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 2
… Trinity. 381. Gregory present at the Second Council. Oration on Meletius. 382-3. Against Eunomius, Books I-XII. 383. Present at Constantinople. Letter xxi. 384. Answer to Eunomius' Second Book. 385. The Great Catechism. 386 …
755 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 7
… So that Gregory's language must have had, necessarily, a close connexion with that of the great interpreter and apologist, who had explained to his century the same truths which Gregory had to explain to …
2,283 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 113
… But the patriarchs of Jerusalem, though their position was recognized, were not at that time of any great influence or importance. A brief summary may now suitably be given of some leading events of Gregory …
1,315 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 2
… his brother Gregory to sleep. [26] Here, then, Basil was taught the rudiments of religion by his grandmother, [27] and by his father, [28] in accordance with the teaching of the great Gregory the Wonder …
2,265 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 8
… of his father, who was really Gregory of Nazianzus, and is known even to the typical schoolboy, Gregory has never been described as "Gregory of Sasima." "The great plain which extends from Sasima nearly to …
2,265 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 1
… Yet in one respect a great gain must have at once resulted to the Catholic cause from this long work. The counter opposition of Created and Uncreate, with which Gregory met the opposition of Generate …
2,309 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 91
… Gregory Nazianzen, called by the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus "The Great," and universally known as "The Theologian" or "The Divine," a title which he shares with S. John the Evangelist alone among the Fathers of …
2,599 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 11
… Gregory falls short of his great predecessor; but of these some may perhaps be accounted for by the different aspect of the Arian controversy as it presented itself to the two champions of the Faith …
2,213 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 119
… may be observed with truth that few great historical characters of whom so much is known are stained by so few disfiguring blots as that of Gregory. It may be presumed that a prominent motive …
1,324 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 93
… Gregory was, not unnaturally, indignant at this treatment; while Basil, whose great object had been to strengthen himself against Anthimus, took it as unkind of Gregory to be so reluctant to comply with his friend …
2,641 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 117
… As if to make up for such inaction, he had seemingly been profuse in his compliments to Gregory, using the expression, "as thou hast commanded," and calling him "Universal Pope." Such language Gregory, in reply …
2,187 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 107
… You will, I hope, of your great sagacity devise a means of relief from these outrageous people and intolerable annoyances. 2. No one is so ignorant of Gregory as to have any unworthy suspicion of …
958 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 9
… But two great counter-influences seem always to be acting upon Gregory; the one sympathy with the speculations of Origen, the other a tendency to see even with a modern insight into the closeness of …
2,434 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 75
… Gregory was by birth a Cappadocian, and (if Nazianzen speaks of the same Gregory, which some critics doubt) studied at Alexandria, where S. Athanasius had treated him with great kindness and familiarity, though Gregory afterwards …
2,263 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 5
Scarcely anything is known of the latter years of Gregory of Nyssa's life. The last record we have of him is that he was present at a Synod of Constantinople, summoned a.d. 394 …
2,261 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 5
… Gregory of Nazianzus [130] gives us a picture of his illustrious friend standing in the midst of a great crowd of men and women and children, some scarcely able to breathe; of servants bringing in …
2,433 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 94
… Jerome, who came to Constantinople at this time, has left on record the pleasure with which he listened to and conversed with the great Defender of the Faith. Unfortunately Gregory now let himself be taken …
2,437 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 121
… The Book of Pastoral Rule of Saint Gregory the Great, Roman Pontiff, to John, Bishop of the City of Ravenna. ------------------------ Part I. Gregory to his most reverend and most holy brother and fellow-bishop, John …
1,542 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 7
… The sore was never healed, and even in the great funeral oration in which Basil's virtues and abilities are extolled, Gregory traces the main trouble of his chequered career to Basil's unkindness, and …
2,268 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 194
… The filling up of the See of Naples appears to have been a cause of great anxiety to Gregory, probably because of the party feeling prevailing in the city. In his first letter to the …
849 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 202
… LXXVI. (Basil the Great died Jan. 1, a.d. 379. Gregory of Nazianzus was prevented by very serious illness from attending his funeral, and therefore wrote as follows to Gregory of Nyssa.) This, then, was …
864 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 222
… With this view I am in great need of the assistance of your Charity, to mention to me shortly what comes back to your memory, and what you happen to have known. For I remember …
1,842 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 6
… In his great treatise On the Soul and the Resurrection, he rests a great deal on the parallel between the relation of man to his body, and that of God to the world.--The soul …
2,408 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 96
… All these then whom I have named separated themselves from the Egyptians and celebrated divine service with the great Gregory. But he himself implored them, assembled as they were to promote harmony, to subordinate all …
1,549 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 82
… When this was done, a great disturbance arose; but afterwards the people were brought to unite on the following stipulations. Having assembled such of the clergy as might be considered worthy candidates for the bishopric …
1,571 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 6
Basil may or may not have taken Gregory's advice not to put himself forward. But Gregory and his father, the bishop, from this time strained every nerve to secure the election of Basil. It …
2,224 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 1
… We have already observed the continuity of the great Alexandrian school: how it arose, and how Pantænus begat Clement, and Clement begat Origen. So Origen begat Gregory, and so the Lord has provided for the …
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