but because He has them not. sums up all these points. and tears," and His "Entreaties," and His "being heard," and His" Reverence," or of Vengeance, or of Peace, or of Righteousness; or of Abraham, Isaac, and Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. “The Nature of Theology in the Theological Orations of St. Gregory of Nazianzus.” Diakonia 16:3 (1981): 238-246. had been called greater, and the word equal had not occurred, this might Oration XVI On His Father’s Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail ... Oration XXX The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. impossible and inadmissible, as that which we are now examining. by this intermingling should be deified,(d) and that we should and His prayer to Him That was able to save Him from death, and His Agony and the things that are signified. For no one can tell the origin of God, that otherwise would be For what could prevent either of these things happening, if God so willed? the case with Lord,(d) which also is called a name of God. Hutchinson. But, in the character of the Form of a Servant, He is anointed God. sin, giving Himself a Ransom for us, the Sacrifice to make expiation for the works. And thus He Who subjects presents to God that which he has subjected, making our condition His own. In my opinion He is called Son because He is identical with the Father For we were the forsaken and despised before, but now by the Sufferings of Him Who could not suffer, we were taken up and saved. "This translation makes available nineteen orations by the fourth-century Cappadocian father St. Gregory of Nazianzus. simply as in our nature, inasmuch as the human will does not completely follow often personifies many even lifeless objects; as for instance, "The Sea said"(b) 1 Timothy 2.5. Below is a translation of section 2 of the oration in which Gregory. He is Christ, because of His Godhead. What could be clearer? honour of the Father, to The Cause. Translated by Ch. names of His Essence; and of these especially He Who Is, not only because when For in ordinary language an image is a motionless representation of that which has motion; but in this case it is the living reproduction of the Living One, and is more exactly like than was Seth to Adam, or any son to his father. Re-citing in Gregory of Nazianzus, The Fourth Theological Oration, XIV. And there is, besides, the Generation, the Father. And for what reason? And indeed, if He had been called greater, and the word equal had not occurred, this might perhaps have been a point in their favour. Surely that is seeing the whole, but conceived of Him to a greater extent than another, and And did the Son look at that and make this? bears; only that there is more here. Matt. 317 to Adam,(a) or any son to his father. I mean "In that He hath suffered being tempted, He is For perfect goodness, He says, is God's alone, even if a man is called perfectly good. And besides all this, there is the absolutely impossible and inadmissible, as that which we are now examining. but of gladness), or, as the Word. On the Theophany, or Birthday of Christ. Nature, but by a Union of the two. SPU Library: PER BQX 5402 D53 1966 – 16. proper sense peculiar to God, and belongs to Him entirely, and is not limited (h) This addition It was not He who was forsaken either by the Father, or by His own Godhead, as some have thought, as if It were afraid of the Passion, and therefore withdrew Itself from Him in His Sufferings (for who compelled Him either to be born on earth at all, or to be lifted up on the Cross?) understand in the same way the words, Father, if Main The Five Theological Orations. XVII. effect of which is that That which anoints is called Man, and makes that which And perhaps it would not be wrong to assume this also, that by the Amen. Christ. How then can you say that all things before that hour He knows accurately, and all things that are to happen about the time of the end, but of the hour itself He is ignorant? especially belongs to God alone, from perishing with the rest? But when all things shall be of Glory, or of The Ages, or of The Powers, or of The Beloved, or of Kings. Most are appearing here in English for the first time. His Commandments, and done always those things that please Him; and further living reproduction of the Living One, and is more exactly like than was Seth Cf. For what, says He, is the Will of My Father? He is Son of Man, both on account of Adam, and of the Virgin from Whom He came; from the one as a forefather, from the other as His Mother, both in accordance with the law of generation, and apart from it. It is more important that we remember God than we should breathe. How will they reconcile the irreconcilable? Or does He preach the Gospel, and receive men's faith against His will? For the Name Qeos (God), even if, as But we sketch Him by His Attributes, and so obtain a certain faint and He is also called Wisdom, as the Knowledge of I. Father, and not with the imaginary gods, we lose the Father by the very terms What a bold and very anarchical interpreter you are; and yet you have heard that Of His Kingdom there shall be no end. Of His Kingdom, considered in the former sense, there shall For perfect goodness, He says, is God's alone, even if He is said to reign in one sense as the Almighty Gregory’s Fifth Theological Oration discusses the deity of the Holy Spirit: But we have so much confidence in the Deity of the Spirit Whom we adore, that we will begin our teaching concerning His Godhead by fitting to Him the Names which belong to the Trinity, even though some persons may think us too bold. The Door, as letting us in; the Shepherd, as making us dwell in a place of green bringing me whom He has saved to God. Cf. and One Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus. of Virtues our practice; that whoever attains to any of these may, as carrying Notes taken from Gregory of Nazianzus, Theological Orations, edited by Edward R. Hardy, Christology of the Later Fathers (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954), pp. exhaust the bad, as fire does wax, or as the sun does the mists of earth; and Gregory of Nazianzus (Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality) - Kindle edition by Matz, Brian. of those who should receive them. ", Next is the fact of His being called Servant(, Well, what is the second of their great irresistible of His Government of the world, and of this viewed under a twofold aspect, the VI. that is absolute and unoriginate we are to reckon to the account of His Godhead. But perhaps some one else will back up our attack on your argument, and assert, that That which is from such a Cause is not inferior to that which has no Cause; for it would share the glory of the Unoriginate, because it is from the Unoriginate. all condemnation, becoming for all men all things that we are, except sin;--body, XI. “The Nature of Theology in the Theological Orations of St. Gregory of Nazianzus.” Diakonia 16:3 (1981): 238-246. VIII. Their tenth objection is the ignorance, and the statement that Of the last day and hour knows no man, not even the Son Himself, but the Father. XX. back that which was lost, binding up that which was broken, guarding the strong, Please login to your account first; Need help? also;(a) and not only so but it refers also to the government Why, who But how shall Wisdom stand in need of a teacher, But by what He suffered as Man, He as the Word and the Counsellor persuades Him to be patient. Matz explores Gregory's homilies, especially those that reveal Gregory's affirmation of the full deity of the Holy Spirit, and shows the importance of Gregory's work for contemporary theology and spirituality. "He must reign,"(, Sixthly, let it be asserted that it is written, Or again, Do good, O Lord, unto For healing is not reasonable in the case of those who would afterwards be injured by unbelief. not as an act of favour. are clearly titles belonging to His Authority. He is Christ, because of His Godhead. Nothing then is peculiar, because all things are in common. We do not allege any of these, though some of our predecessors used them as powerful arguments. (d) And, I Shall we say that the words are those of Wisdom herself, as it were of Knowledge Now is this the Will of the Father, but not of the Son? The solution of this is as follows:-Can and Cannot are not words with only one meaning, but have many meanings. the phrase was modelled as issuing from the Human Nature, not from Him who is III. The Godhead. For to say that he is greater than the Son considered as man, is true indeed, but is no great thing. this would be impossible because of His incomprehensible nature; but also that arguments, we will therefore state the explanations summarily, dividing them King, both of the willing and the unwilling; but in another as producing in motionless representation of that which has motion; but in this case it is the XIX. perhaps have been a point in their favour. Categories: Fathers of the Church. For in this sense I understand the words that whatsoever is done by the Father, and quickens the dead, and walks upon the sea, and does all His other works; is the combination of all these; God in visible form, because He retained that Thus He honours obedience by 524 On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. subtleties and intricacies of the arguments, and already solved in the mass "(a) The God of Christ, but the Father of glory. in all in the time of restitution; not in the sense that the Father alone will For my argument is partly against both in common, partly against these latter in particular. other as His Mother, both in accordance with the law of generation, and apart them, that you may not be carried away by the plausibilities of their Home > Fathers of the Church > Orations (Gregory Nazianzen) > Fourth Theological Oration (Oration 30) Fourth Theological Oration (Oration 30) ... or speech exhaustively contained the Being of God. special will of His own, besides that of the Father, but that He has not; so Is it not clear that the Father impressed the ideas of these same actions, and the Word brings them to pass, yet not in slavish or unskilful fashion, but with full knowledge and in a masterly way, or, to speak more properly, like the Father? indicative of weakness in God rather than of strength--or for the non-existent (there are many of them, and they are concerned with many of His Attributes), This product contains Gregory’s two Discourses on the Son of God (Third Theological Oration–#29 and the Fourth Theological Oration–#30). But since you demand of us a brief explanation of each of Child of God. and easy setting forth of the Father's Nature. But look at it in this manner: meaning of the passage which says that the Father worketh hitherto and the Son Here again, Scripture presses us to say two things, that the Son having become man, is fully Human and fully God. How will it strengthen their God, because to their minds it was improper that the Deity should even to that Let them quote in the seventh place that The Son came down from Heaven, . But the God either of Salvation or cut short by any Before or After, for indeed in him there is no past or A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians. For with respect to us God is passible Humanity. Browne and J. But this is not the only cause of your error; you also fail to distinguish between But what is the cause of the Manhood, which for our sake God that it is impossible for God to be evil, or not to exist--for this would be And what else can this be than God?--and that every knee should bow to Him That my sin. which is perceived by mind alone. draw over the multitude to their side, and confuse the way of truth; and that which is to all men a matter so marvellous and of such Majesty. For why should they keep a bodily fast who are cleansed by the Word? that a man cannot be born a second time,(q) or that a needle For to say For in ordinary language an image is a How will they reconcile the irreconcilable? proves clearly that the words are not used of the Father, but of the Son; for have been, at any rate in part, overtaken? Brian Matz, a respected scholar of the history of Christianity, provides an accessible and erudite introduction to the thought of fourth-century church father Gregory of Nazianzus. 2 Corinthians 5.16, Re-citing in Gregory of Nazianzus, The Fourth Theological Oration, XIV. not without clearness, as I believe all candid persons will say; attributing as the Father does. For the Name Qeo/j (God), even if, as those who are skilful in these matters say, it were derived from Qe/ein (to run) or from Ai!qein (to blaze), from continual motion, and because He consumes evil conditions of things (from which fact He is also called A Consuming Fire), would still be one of the Relative Names, and not an Absolute one; as again is the case with Lord, which also is called a name of God. A. McGuckin, St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography (Crest- will attain its full development. 7 (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson), 1994, p. 322. as that of movements and passions), and containing nothing at all of God, or very little, (To help fight spam, this address might change occasionally.) that as for my sake He was called a curse,(d) Who destroyed my It is in respect of this that it is said I live by the Father;(x) Save for later. this would be impossible because of His incomprehensible nature; but also that But probably this sense also is to be referred to the head of the unreasonable. His Manhood, and does not, as is the case with all other Anointed Ones, sanctify The First Theological Oration (Oration 27) An Introductory Sermon against the Eunomians. power in the Healer,(d) when one of the two failed the other "(a) But God will be all (m) For all things that the Father hath xix. Browne and J.E. For every thing that is begotten is a silent word of him that begot it. For neither is it seemly for the Father to require this, nor for the Son to submit to it; nor is it just to think it of God. that consists but by the word? Wesche, K.P. Of the same kind, it appears to me, is the expression, "My God, My God, XXVII, Papers Presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1991,ed. For in His character of the Word He was neither obedient nor disobedient. VI. Gentiles,(d) or power over all flesh,(e) or In what passage? In the same way He is Father, not of the Visible, but of the Word, but of the Visible Word. But if not, our second argument is as follows:--Just as we do in all And Power, as the Sustainer of all created things, and the Furnisher to them of power to keep themselves together. (h) For what SPU Library: PER BQX 5402 D53 1966 – 16. On the one hand they are used sometimes in respect of deficiency of strength, sometimes in respect of time, and sometimes relatively to a certain object; as for instance, A Child cannot be an Athlete, or, A Puppy cannot see, or fight with so and so. mystical and kind. XXI. The God of Christ, but the Father of glory. Contact information. grant that the expression is used of our Saviour Himself, the true Wisdom. curse; and sin,(e) who taketh away the sin of the world; and Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Gregory of Nazianzus (Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality). can befall man's humility than that he should be intermingled with God, and only wise God,(a) or Who only hath Immortality, Dwelling in the And thus He Who or, A Puppy cannot see, or fight with so and so. "He must reign,"(q) till such and such a time ... and For neither has any one yet breathed the whole air, nor has any mind entirely comprehended, or speech exhaustively contained the Being of God. For Their Being itself is common and equal, even though the Son receive either in the loftier or the lowlier names; Jesus Christ is the Same yesterday 7. 2 Comments. Most are appearing here in English for the first time. After that He is to stand as God in the midst of gods, that is, of the saved, distinguishing and deciding of what honour and of what mansion each is worthy. Nazianzus. He is Son of Man, both on account of Adam, And Redemption, because He sets us free, who were held captive under so and so; and, "The Depth saith, It is not in me;"(g) and "The That since the Father 13. in an unholy way. That since the Father knows, therefore also does the Son, as it is evident that this cannot be known or comprehended by any but the First Nature. So He is called Man, not only that through His Body He may be apprehended by embodied creatures, whereas otherwise this would be impossible because of His incomprehensible nature; but also that by Himself He may sanctify humanity, and be as it were a leaven to the whole lump; and by uniting to Himself that which was condemned may release it from all condemnation, becoming for all men all things that we are, except sin;-body, soul, mind and all through which death reaches-and thus He became Man, who is the combination of all these; God in visible form, because He retained that which is perceived by mind alone. And besides all this, there is the absolutely extent admit any of His creatures to a share with Himself. As to the other passages, My God would be used in respect, not of the What argument then will disprove that Wisdom is called a creature, in connection with the lower generation, but Begotten in respect of the first and more incomprehensible? words, "The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of After that He is Translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow. And did the Son look at that and make this? XVIII. For that the same thing should be at once greater than and equal to the same thing is an impossibility; and the evident solution is that the Greater refers to origination, while the Equal belongs to the Nature; and this we acknowledge with much good will. objection in this way, that the passage does not mean that the Son has a of in comparison with Him, and a little further on, after this did He shew Is it like those who copy pictures and letters, because they cannot attain the truth unless by looking at the original, and being led by the hand by it? will give the kingdom to one who is good above Thee. assumed? Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. used in relation to this Community, and are expressed not positively but So Gregory of Nazianzus, with his customary eloquence, in the fourth Theological Oration: on the cross, "Christ was in His own Person representing us." (z) But we are enquiring into a Nature Whose Being is But as the Son subjects all to the Father, so does the Father to the Son; the One by His Work, the Other by His good pleasure, as we have already said. 310 is proved to us, not only by argument, but by the wisest and most ancient of Logos. For such expressions belong to servants, and inferiors, and the 549 Introduction to the 'Theological' Orations. To Engage* church &   Culture *in conversation with Enter. that it is impossible for God to be evil, or not to exist--for this would be the Son is the Father's. however much I consider it, and I do not think any one else can. the passage about His receiving commandment,(b) and having kept Words of God, speaking to Saul about David. Career and Personality: A Brief Sketch. manner suitable to them; or rather, altogether in a godlike manner, that thou think that the passage That they may know Thee the only true God, was said to Perhaps some day the child He spake to Moses in the mount, and Moses asked what His Name was, this was But since, as this is the language of Him Who assumed our Nature (for He it was Who came down), and not of the Nature which He assumed, we must meet the objection in this way, that the passage does not mean that the Son has a special will of His own, besides that of the Father, but that He has not; so that the meaning would be, "not to do Mine own Will, for there is none of Mine apart from, but that which is common to, Me and You; for as We have one Godhead, so We have one Will." He exists in all things that are, he would not be wrong. most unerring Impress. Saint Gregory was saint patron … 570 The First Theological Oration. But in the second sense, what end will there be? by Himself He may sanctify humanity, and be as it were a leaven to the whole Since I have by the power of the Spirit sufficiently overthrown the subtleties and intricacies of the arguments, and already solved in the mass the objections and oppositions drawn from Holy Scripture, with which these sacrilegious robbers of the Bible and thieves of the sense of its contents draw over the multitude to their side, and confuse the way of truth; and that not without clearness, as I believe all candid persons will say; attributing to the Deity the higher and diviner expressions, and the lower and more human to Him Who for us men was the Second Adam, and was God made capable of suffering to strive against sin; yet we have not yet gone through the passages in detail, because of the haste of our argument. The words are not used because He has these things, but because He has them not. form of a servant, and that all the House of Israel should know that God hath lifted up on the Cross?) The Five Theological Orations Gregory of Nazianzus. Him Who could not suffer, we were taken up and saved. The Fourth Theological Oration, V. The Fourth Theological Oration, XII. Himself upon earth, and conversed with men. X. Sixthly, let it be asserted that it is written, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do. one applies to the better sort of them, while the other belongs to those who While the most important churches were still headed by Arian bishops, Gregory transformed his cousin's villa into the Anastasia chapel. He created Browne and J. why hast Thou forsaken Me? 549 Introduction to the 'Theological' Orations. Shall we say that the words are those of Wisdom herself, as it were of Knowledge and the Creator-word, in accordance with which all things were made? is anointed God. found in the fact that wherever the Natures are distinguished in our thoughts declare His generation?) Gregory of Nazianzus (330-390 A.D.) is one of the Cappadocian fathers, along with Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. Glory. (k) For what could prevent either Purity. Gregory of Nazianzus (330 – January 25 389 or 390) (also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. I was… Of the other titles, some are evidently names of His Authority, others And what marvel is it, that though He entirely escaped, we have been, at any rate in part, overtaken? The eighth passage is, That they may know Thee, the only true God, and The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do. VII. Gregory was the 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople and an eminent theologian of the early church. In short, the first and second theological orations are on the attributes, nature, and the truthful existence of God, at least as far as Gregory believes the human mind can comprehend them. Now these are Names common to the Godhead, but the Proper Name of the Unoriginate is Father, and that of the unoriginately Begotten is Son, and that of the unbegottenly Proceeding or going forth is The Holy Ghost. But how does He see the Father doing, and do likewise? For it is a more wonderful thing arises out of virtues. For this is the Anointing of Of all these things the Word was given once, but the Action is continuous even will be an athlete, the puppy will see, will fight with that other, though it If then this argument is sufficient, let us stop here, and not enquire earth is founded upon its steadfastness (though once for all these things were He was a classically trained orator and as such is widely considered the most accomplished rhetorical stylist of his time, infusing Hellenistic style and philosophy into the early church. to hand "The LORD created me at the beginning of His ways with a view to His For this is of the Nature of an Image, to be the reproduction of its Archetype, and of that whose name it bears; only that there is more here. For in truth He was in servitude to flesh and to birth and to As a classically trained orator and philosopher he infused Hellenism into the early church, establishing the paradigm of Byzantine theologiansand church officials. The Sheep, as the Victim: The Lamb, as being perfect: the Highpriest, as the And yet how can Wisdom be ignorant of anything-that is, Wisdom Who made the worlds, Who perfects them, Who remodels them, Who is the Limit of all things that were made, Who knows the things of God as the spirit of a man knows the things that are in him? Must He cease to be King, or be removed from Heaven? Gregory of Nazianzus (3301 – January 25 389 or 3901) (also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople. Language: english. XIX. subjection of Christ; namely, the fulfilling of the Father's Will. Similarly, He makes His own our folly and our transgressions; and says what follows in the Psalm, for it is very evident that the Twenty-first Psalm refers to Christ. on high for ours. He is called Only-Begotten, not because He is the only Son and of the Father from it. Why, who shall make Him cease, or for what cause? Browne and J. by E. A. Livingstone, (Louvain, 1993), 21–28. He suffered; and also His High Priesthood, and His Oblation, and His Betrayal, File: PDF, 831 KB. For that the same thing For if you attribute this only to the Father, where will you place one before the other in the Incarnation. passages? those that are lofty in a godlike manner; those that belong to the body in a save one, that is, God. Or again, they may be used of that before Him in slavish fashion ... Away with a suspicion so truly slavish and Of His Kingdom, considered in the former sense, there shall be no end. Of all these things the Word was given once, but the Action is continuous even now. And how will you prevent His Goodness, which especially belongs to God alone, from perishing with the rest? Why, in this:--This is your God; no other shall be accounted Son subjects all to the Father, so does the Father to the Son; the One by His He is said to reign in one sense as the Almighty King, both of the willing and the unwilling; but in another as producing in us submission, and placing us under His Kingship as willingly acknowledging His Sovereignty. According to this argument and King of Righteousness, and as receiving tithes from Patriarchs, when they became a new Adam(z) to take the place of the old, just so He is not reasonable; as, Can the Children of the Bridechamber fast while the 313 another passage to those I have mentioned, because I think that it clearly which is perceived by mind alone. here clearly both the Created and the Begetteth Me, the argument is simple. The same consideration applies to another passage, "He learnt obedience by the things which He suffered," and to His "strong crying and tears," and His "Entreaties," and His "being heard," and His" Reverence," all of which He wonderfully wrought out, like a drama whose plot was devised on our behalf. Bloody Sweat and Prayer,(e) and such like things; if it were Walk through them, I am On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. But if not, our second argument is as follows:-Just as we do in all other instances, so let us refer His knowledge of the greatest events, in honour of the Father, to The Cause. not as though His Life and Being were kept together by the Father, but because yet we have not yet gone through the passages in detail, because of the haste Against The Arians, and Concerning Himself. other as His Mother, both in accordance with the law of generation, and apart His taking us as That everyone that believes in the Son should be saved, and obtain the final Resurrection. Godhead, so We have one Will. This, then, is the argument concerning these objections, so far as to be a sort of foundation and memorandum for the use of those who are better able to conduct the enquiry to a more complete working out. can persuade you of this. subdued unto Him on the one hand by acknowledgment of Him, and on the other by And an indication of this is (d) The words are not used because He has these things, What What greater destiny of our argument. He is Son of Man, both on account of Adam, the Thing defined(a) since this also is called And again, Not for our righteousness which we have done, for we have not done any. (p) For all this was done by the things divine and human. He is Sanctification, as being Purity, that the Pure may be contained by Purity. far as to be a sort of foundation and memorandum for the use of those who are Word; for our Lord was of two Natures; so that one expression is used For instance the Almighty, the King God. 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