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Definition of Gregory Nazianzen
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Church Father, Father, Father Of The Church, Doctor, Doctor Of The Church, Saint, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gregory Nazianzen
Literary usage of Gregory Nazianzen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"44 Consult Gregory Nazianzen, de Vita sua, torn. ii. p. 25—28. Hii general and
particular opinion of the clergy and their assemblies may oe seen in verse ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1901)
"30 This unfavourable portrait of Sasima is drawn by Gregory Nazianzen (toni. ...
Shakespeare had never read the poems of Gregory Nazianzen, he was ignorant ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"... Orations and Letters of S. Gregory Nazianzen. Translated with prolegomena,
&c., by CG Browne, MA, Rector of Lympstone, Devon, and JE Swallow, MA, ..."
4. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"A comparison of these poems with the correct metrical compositions of Gregory
Nazianzen and Synesius goes far to show that the simple and sincere tone of ..."
5. Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1902)
"Gregory Nazianzen says somewhere: "This city (Constantinople) is full of
handicraftsmen and slaves, who are all profound theologians, and preach in their ..."
6. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"It was quite different with the fervent Gregory Nazianzen, whose pulpit oratory
held Christian hearts enthralled. His was a poetic, emotional nature; ..."
7. The history of the Church of Christ by Joseph Milner, Isaac Milner (1847)
"His son, Gregory the younger, the famous Gregory, usually called Gregory Nazianzen,
making uncommon advances in learning, in several seminaries ..."
8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... is addressed by Gregory Nazianzen, by Basil, and by Jerome as intercessors
between man and God. Not alone their bones but their graves and their shrines ..."
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