The Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus in the Christian poetical context of the Fourth Century
The Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus in the Christian poetical context of the Fourth Century

Summary/Abstract: St. Gregory of Nazianzus was a personality of first rank in the complex world of the 4th Christian century. Gregory of Nazianzus, with his solid and vast knowledge in dialectic, philosophy, theology, scriptures, with his incomparable eloquence, and his talent as a writer, exercised a great influence on his contemporaries and on generations after him. These qualities make him win all the disputes where he had to defend Christian Orthodoxy. For his import of great and exalted ideas from the theological science into poetry e was even liked to Dante and was suggested that he be considered on just ground the father of modern poetry. In summary this is what Gregory;s providential mission in the Church was: to fight successfully against the great heretics of his century; to work towards the reform of the clergy’s morality; to bring Constantinople to the Orthodox faith; to create a form of Christian poetry and use it in order to serve, defend, ornate and beautify the Christian truth.

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