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St Gregory of Nazianzus

AD 329–389

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St Gregory of Nazianzus

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Together with Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa, G. of Nazianzus forms the triad of the so-called "luminaries of Cappadocia." He did not possess, or did not possess to the same degree as Basil, the virtue of action, nor the speculative vigor of the Nyssen; but he possessed, albeit to a lesser degree, both virtues (although his was a meditative temperament, fond of solitude, and his mind was more that of a man of letters than of a philosopher): and, greater than in the …

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Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
Correspondence with Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Cæsarea
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