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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

301–400

The Fourth Century

1 work

362

Greek

In Defence of His Flight to Pontus

Gregory of Nazianzus · c. 329 – 390

Ordained against his will by his own father, Gregory ran away, then came back and explained himself. The care of souls is the art of arts, he argues, because a physician treats bodies that can be examined and a pastor treats what cannot be seen — and no two people can be handled the same way.

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