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from Part III - Traditions of Pro-Nicene Christology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2022
In the years following the death of Basil of Caesarea in 378, his younger brother Gregory of Nyssa (ca. 335–ca. 394) emerged as a leading Christian intellectual. Following his brother, Gregory wrote against Eunomius, the Pneumatomachians, and Apollinarius. He attended various synods, including the Council of Constantinople in 381. He was cited in a law of the emperor Theodosius dated July 30, 381 as one of the paragons of orthodoxy in the Eastern Roman Empire and was sent by the emperor on missions to supervise episcopal affairs as far as the province of Arabia. Dozens of his writings on various themes of Christian doctrine and practice have survived. As bishop, one of his roles was to preach at the annual feasts. The current sermon is one of the earliest pieces of evidence for a feast of the Nativity on December 25 separate from the Epiphany on January 6 – at the time this was a relatively recent distinction. We are uncertain as to which year Gregory delivered this Christmas homily, but a reasonable guess has been made that it was 386.
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