A.D. 381 heretics, pagans, and the dawn of the monotheistic state ( PDFDrive )

Chapter Six: The Swansong of Free Speech: the Theological
Orations of Gregory of Nazianus
1 The transition is described in Limberis.
2 McGluckin, Chapter Five, ‘An Invitation to Byzantium’, and Chapter Six,
‘Archbishop of Constantinople’, cover the main events in this chapter and the
next. Gregory’s own account survives as well as two poems that describe his
fears as he sets out for his appointment in Constantinople.
3 Quoted in Van Dam, Kingdom of Snow, p.139.
4 Lines 696 ff. in Carolinne White’s translation of De Vita Sua, which contains
the sad story of Gregory’s time in Constantinople.
5 Oration 21 in the accepted numeration - this numeration does not necessarily
follow the chronological sequence in which the orations were given. See
McGluckin, pp.266—9, for a summary and analysis.
6 ‘There were certainly Eunomian theologians, as well as Homoian clergy of
Demophilus in attendance at these orations, and Gregory knew that he was
expected to give the performance of his life.’ Ibid., p.277. MacMullen, Voting
About God in Early Church Councils, discusses how popular involvement in city
assemblies was transferred into Church councils (Chapter Two, ‘The Democratic
Element’), and he has further comments, p.51 ff.
7 I have used Norris here. The translations of the orations are by F. Williams and
I. Wickham.
8 See the discussion in Vaggione, beginning on p.234.
9 Norris, p.176.