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Gregory Nazianzen — Letters
Gregory's collected letters — important documentary witness to the Cappadocian theological circle (Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzen) and to the Constantinopolitan period (380-381).
Source context
- Theme
- personal correspondence as vehicle of theological counsel, pastoral care, and doctrinal clarification in fourth-century Cappadocian Christianity
- Soul-faculty
- Intellectual Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Platonic epistolary traditionThe Platonic letters, particularly those attributed to Plato addressing political and philosophical formation, establish a cross-tradition congruence with Gregory's letters as instruments of spiritual direction addressed to specific individuals within hierarchical relationships.
- Stoic philosophical correspondenceSeneca's moral epistles to Lucilius provide a structural parallel to Gregory's letter-form as a discipline of inner formation, where the written exchange serves as a surrogate for direct philosophical dialogue.
Letters
St. Gregory Nazianzen · Saint · Doctor of the Church
[Chapter 1 (¶1)] Division I Letters on the Apollinarian controversy Division II Correspondence with St. Basil the Great Division III Miscellaneous letters
[Chapter 1 (¶2)] Source. Translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 7. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1894.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3103.htm.
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