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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gregory of Nazianzus."”.
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Trinitarian Grammars: A Comparison of Gregory of Nazianzus and Some Contemporary Models
… model represented by Augustine. The purpose of the dissertation is to describe the doctrines of the knowledge of God and the Trinity as articulated by Gregory of Nazianzus, the Eastern father who defined these doctrines for the Eastern tradition, for the purpose of critically evaluating the …
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Christ our healer : a constructive dialogue between John Calvin and Gregory of Nazianzus.
Metaphors of disease and healing for sin and salvation have not received much attention in contemporary confessional Reformed circles. This dissertation takes a preliminary step towards a Reformed catholic understanding of these metaphors by evaluating their use by John Calvin and Gregory of …
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… scholarship on marital celibacy has all too often read later practices of marital celibacy into earlier texts, due to scholars' tendency to universalize ascetic practice. This study endeavors to dismantle such universalizing by demonstrating the differences among four church fathers' …
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Gregory of Nazianzus's Use of Creation in the Trinitarian Controversy: Theological Hermeneutics as Polemic
In this dissertation I argue that Gregory of Nazianzus implements an allegorical interpretation of biblical creation texts in order to uphold the divinity of the persons of the Trinity against his later fourth-century Trinitarian opponents. Gregory’s polemic is motivated by his own theology and is …
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The text of the gospels in the works of Gregory of Nazianus
Citation of the New Testament by the Church Fathers is a valuable resource in reconstructing the early history of its text, for the time and place each was writing is known. The Society for Biblical Literature has undertaken a series of studies of the Fathers who wrote in Greek in order to make …
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THEOLOGIA AND OIKONOMIA: THE SOTERIOLOGICAL GROUND OF GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS’S TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY.
… dissertation explores the soteriological ground of the trinitarian theology of Gregory of Nazianzus and establishes a consistent link in his thought between the spheres of oikonomia and theologia. His writings are studied against the background of contemporary theological and philosophical trends …
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Age of Philosophy: the self-representation of power in the post-Constantinian empire
This thesis investigates the use of traditional philosophical concepts to legitimise new structures of power in the writings of the fourth-century Greco-Roman elite, with special attention to the emperor Julian “the Apostate” and the philosopher-bishop Synesius of Cyrene, but including also …
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Serving the Patris in the Roman Empire: Civic Patriotism in Basil of Caesarea, the Emperor Julian, and Gregory Nazianzus
This thesis is a study of civic patriotism in the fourth-century Roman Empire in the East. Civic patriotism is often viewed as dead or irrelevant in late Antiquity. This thesis argues that civic patriotic language remained a powerful force, being endorsed, adapted and contested by a variety of …