{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg2022.tlg008.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2022.tlg008.local001","title":"De Theologia (Orat. 28)","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Gregorius Nazianzenus","authorityName":"GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS Theol.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2022-gregorius-nazianzenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg2022-gregorius-nazianzenus/","editors":["Arthur James Mason"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus","edition":null,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press","place":"Cambridge","date":"1899","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"University of Leipzig","sponsors":["University of Leipzig"],"funders":["European Social Fund Saxony"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2014","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Manager (University of Leipzig), 2013-2015","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig), 2015","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"http://archive.org/details/thefivetheologic00greguoft","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Gregorius Nazianzenus. De Theologia (Orat. 28). ed. Arthur James Mason. The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1899. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg2022.tlg008.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπειδὴ ἀνεκαθήραμεν τῷ λόγῳ τὸν θεόλογον, οἷόν τε εἶναι χρὴ διελθόντες, καὶ οἷστισι φιλοσοφητέον, καὶ ἡνίκα, καὶ ὅσον·—ὅτι ὡς οἷόν τε καθαροῖς, ἵνα φωτὶ καταλαμβάνηται φῶς· καὶ τοῖς ἐπιμελεστέροις, ἵνα μὴ ἄγονος ἦ εἰς ἄγονον χώραν ἐμπίπτων ὁ λόγος· καὶ ὅταν γαλήνην ἔχωμεν ἔνδον ἀπὸ τῆς ἔξω περιφορᾶς, ὥστε μή, καθάπερ οἱ λυττῶντες, τῷ πνεύματι διακόπτεσθαι· καὶ ὅσον ἐχωρήσαμεν, ἢ χωρούμεθα· —ἐπειδὴ ταῦτα οὕτω, καὶ ἐνεώσαμεν ἑαυτοῖς θεῖα νεώματα, ὥστε μὴ σπείρειν ἐπ’ ἀκάνθαις, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς ὡμαλίσαμεν, τῆ γραφῇ τυπωθέντες τε καὶ τυπώσαντες· φέρε, τοῖς τῆς θεολογίας ἤδη προσβῶμεν λόγοις, προστησάμενοι τοῦ λόγου τὸν πατέρα, καὶ 1. 1 ἐπειδὴ] ἔπει ’δε be ’Or. I’ || 3 καθαροῖς] -ον d1 || 7 be: λύζοντες d2 ǁ 8 ἐπειδὴ] ἔπει ’δε ef || 11 τοις τῆς θεολ.] om τῆς d: ομ τῆς θεολ. c1 1. Having spoken of the conditions under which theological subjects jects should be treated, we proceed to…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-25"},{"label":"Chapter 26","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-26"},{"label":"Chapter 27","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-27"},{"label":"Chapter 28","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-28"},{"label":"Chapter 29","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-29"},{"label":"Chapter 30","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-30"},{"label":"Chapter 31","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/#tlg2022-tlg008-local001-31"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg2022.tlg008.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg2022/tlg008/local001.json.gz"}}