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Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa

Timeline Event · Late fourth century

About this date: A period marker for overlapping ministries.

The Cappadocian Fathers clarify Trinitarian language, the Spirit's divinity, and the full humanity of Christ.

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Shared subject; this bundled record was originally written with an Orthodox-informed editorial lens.

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Gregory Nazianzen describes the incarnation:

Gregory Nazianzen distinguishes Christ's two natures while rejecting two sons; this excerpt is his testimony rather than a joint text by both Gregories.

two Natures meeting in One, not two Sons

— St. Gregory the Theologian, Oration 37 (Chapter 37, Section 2), trans. Charles Gordon Browne and James Edward Swallow

Passage context and translation

Gregory describes the Incarnation without either splitting Christ into two sons or blending the divine and human natures.

Before the excerpt

He deigned to be One made out of the two.

After the excerpt

let us not give a false account of the blending

Browne and Swallow translation in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 7; displayed wording is a clause from Oration 37.2.

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