Can We Hear the Spoken Words of Gregory of Nazianzus?
St. Gregory of Nazianzus, of great repute in the Orthodox Church as a theologian, was also an outstanding preacher whose style was honed by some of the greatest teachers of rhetoric of his day. We have scripts of forty-four of his homilies (orations), issued to posterity from his retirement. Their o...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2017
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Scrinium
Année: 2017, Volume: 13, Numéro: 1, Pages: 72-83 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAB Christianisme primitif RE Homilétique VA Philosophie |
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Gregory of Nazianzus
preacher
orations
rhetoric
sophists
figures of thought
figures of speech
direct speech
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| Résumé: | St. Gregory of Nazianzus, of great repute in the Orthodox Church as a theologian, was also an outstanding preacher whose style was honed by some of the greatest teachers of rhetoric of his day. We have scripts of forty-four of his homilies (orations), issued to posterity from his retirement. Their often complex style and thought has led some scholars to deduce that he heavily reworked them and to question whether we can any longer hear what he actually said. Yet his powerful employment of rhetorical figures, particularly in his festal orations, but also elsewhere, and his frequent use of direct speech to individuals, groups, or his whole audience, suggest that here at least we can hear his actual spoken words.
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contient: | In: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00131p08 |