The Image of God in the Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus

Thomas, Gabrielle

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“…32For recent discussions of Gregory's theology see Beeley (2008); Hofer (2013); Thomas (2019); on the political career McGuckin (2001a); Elm (2012). …”

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GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

Goldhill

Greensmith²

2020

Camb. class. j.

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This article is the first to consider book 8 of the Palatine Anthology as an integrated collection. Book 8 consists of funerary epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus. We consider how the book is structured as a coherent collection, what its place in the Palatine Anthology is and, above all, how these underdiscussed poems contribute to the changing discourse of death in fourth-century Christianity. We also look at how the poems contribute to the Byzantine culture in which the Palatine Anthology was put together. The article reveals how Gregory rewrites both the positive values of death in a Christian community and negative descriptions of those who transgress such values.

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“…32For recent discussions of Gregory's theology see Beeley (2008); Hofer (2013); Thomas (2019); on the political career McGuckin (2001a); Elm (2012). …”

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GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

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2020

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Receiving the Gift of Women's Voices

Thomas¹

2022

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The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000

Cunningham

2021

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Early homilies on Mary, the Theotokos, seem remarkably well developed when they burst into view at about the beginning of the fifth century. 1 Many of these works were composed in honour of a new feast in memory of the Virgin. This was celebrated throughout the eastern territories of the Christian Roman empire either on 15 August (in Jerusalem) in connection with the feast of Christ's Nativity, either on a Sunday before or the day after 25 December, in Constantinople. 2 Judging by the content of the homilies that were written in honour of this feastsome of which will be studied belowit was an occasion on which Mary's role in the incarnation was recognised. She helped to inaugurate a new creation by means of her virginal conception and birth of Christ, the Son and Word of God. Mary is praised in exalted terms in the surviving orations, which were composed and delivered in Jerusalem, Antioch, Constantinople, and other cities and parishes in the Eastern Roman empire. However, her role as protector and intercessor of believing Christians would not be celebrated for another century. That element of Marian devotion seems to have developed more slowly than did the Christological emphasis. This is not to say that individual Christians did not yet venerate the Theotokos as a figure of power in her own right. 3 It is possible either that Church leaders viewed this aspect of her cult as unsuitable for festal preaching or that they sought to rein in the burgeoning cult. To put this in another way, early Byzantine bishops and presbyters channelled popular devotion to the Virgin into 1 A useful assessment of the fifth-century and later Greek homilies that deal with the Virgin Mary can be found in Caro 1971-3. For studies of individual preachers who delivered sermons on the

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The Image of God in the Theology of Gregory of Nazianzus

Abstract: Or. 44 (PG 36, 608A-622A). 30 Or. 45 (PG 36, 623A-664C). The creation of the human person in Oration 38 is repeated almost verbatim in Oration 45.

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GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IN THEPALATINE ANTHOLOGY: THE POETICS OF CHRISTIAN DEATH

Receiving the Gift of Women's Voices

The Virgin Mary in Byzantium, c.400-1000

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