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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1. VerfasserIn: Daunton-Fear, Andrew (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2017
In: Scrinium
Jahr: 2017, Band: 13, Heft: 1, Seiten: 72-83
RelBib Classification:KAB Kirchengeschichte 30-500; Frühchristentum
RE Homiletik
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Gregory of Nazianzus
 preacher
 orations
 rhetoric
 sophists
 figures of thought
 figures of speech
 direct speech

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Zusammenfassung: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.

ISSN:1817-7565
Enthält:In: Scrinium
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00131p08