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The Five Theological Orations
St. Gregory the Theologian · image, Copyrighted free use
Preached in Constantinople in 380, when the Orthodox there were a small flock meeting in a borrowed chapel. St. Gregory speaks of who may talk about God, then of God, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The Church gave only three saints the title Theologian, and these five sermons are why he is one of them.
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About this edition
Translated by Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 7 (1894), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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