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33 - Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 1.1.10–11

from Part III - Traditions of Pro-Nicene Christology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2022

Mark DelCogliano
Affiliation:
University of St Thomas, Minnesota
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Here Gregory of Nazianzus fulfills his promise made at the end of his Letter 101 to Cledonius to “compose psalms, write many words, and give them meter.”1 Indeed, if Gregory’s longest argument against Apollinarius’s Christology comes in Letter 101, his most laconic one comes in these didactic verses, Poems 1.1.10–11. These texts, like Letter 101, reveal one of the most idiosyncratic features of his Christology, that Gregory takes heterodox Christologies as a personal affront; to deny that Christ had a mind, as he polemically frames Apollinarius’s position, is to deny Gregory’s mind access to salvation, and thus Gregory responded with aggressive polemic.2 This gives Gregory’s argumentation a special tenor relative to later, more technical discussions of Christology. Unfortunately, modern critical editions of Poems 1.1.10 and 1.10.11 do not exist; this translation is based on the Benedictine text contained in PG 37: 464–471.

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