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Gregory Nazianzen

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Noun1.Gregory Nazianzen - (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391)
Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy


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Demacopoulos studies this transition from the monastic world to what he calls the "clerical" world by closely examining four bishops who had an ascetic-monastic background--Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzen, Augustine, Gregory the Great--and one who was not a bishop, Cassian.
From a sermon by Saint Gregory Nazianzen, bishop It is a holy thought to pray for the dead What is man that you are mindful of him?
For a full portrait of Erasmus, the reader must remember the humanist's biblical scholarship (Latin and Greek New Testament, Annotations, Paraphrases) and dozen patristic editions (Jerome, Augustine, Cyprian, Arnobius, Hilary, Chrysostom, Athanasius, Irenaeus, Ambrose, Gregory Nazianzen, Basil, Origen).
 
 
 
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