The Church Fathers · 380
The Five Theological Orations
Gregory of Nazianzus · c. 329–390
What it is
Five sermons preached in a small chapel in an Arian-dominated Constantinople, on the limits of theological speech and on the Son and the Spirit as fully God.
Why it lasted
The reason their author is called simply the Theologian in the East, and the finest sustained trinitarian preaching ever delivered.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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