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• Winner of John Templeton Award for Theological Promise 2010.
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This book is necessary addition to our sources of knowledge of the early church and I can commend it as a resources for the study of both systematic pastoral theology. Prof Graham Duncan, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Christopher Beeley has provided excellent insight into the life, theology, and spirituality of Gregory of Nazianzus in Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God...Beeley's work should give the reader a desire to read Gregory himself to experience the elegance of his orations, the difficulties of his personality, and the great depths of his theology and spirituality. Keith Goad, Themelios This fine book hones in on the place of the doctrine of the Trinity in Gregory of Nazianzus's theology. Christopher Beeley shows how the Trinity was the glowing heart of Gregory's theology, informing every aspect of it - his understanding of Christ, of the Holy Spirit, his pastoral theology, and the place of prayer in the knowledge of God. Everything starts from and returns to the love flowing from 'My Trinity', as Gregory daringly calls it. Andrew Louth, author of t. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology This brilliant book is the first full-length study since the late 1940s of Gregory of Nazianzus's contribution to the development of classical Christian theology...Beeley brings together historical erudition, thorough knowledge of Gregory's many writings, and deep critical insight into his creative achievement as preacher, poet, and systematic thinker, in a way bound to change permanently our appreciation of the radical newness and the practical implications of his work. Brian E. Daley, author of Gregory of Nazianzus Beeley's book sheds new light on important aspects of Gregory's theology. But the major contribution of his argument is to show persuasively how all Gregory's doctrinal themes cohere in his soteriological understanding of the Trinity, an understanding that Beeley carefully locates in Gregory's own experience both as a Christian leader in controversial times and as a Christian thinker informed by scripture and by the classical Greek heritage. The book demonstrates how, for Gregory, the Trinity not only frames the entire Christian message of salvation, but also functions as the well-spring for the spiritual life and for pastoral care. Rowan A. Greer, author of hristian Hope and Christian Life

a scholarly piece of historical theology, setting Gregory's concerns and aims in a detailed context, but also grappling with his complex theology in a way which moves beyond historicism. Morwenna Ludlow, Scottish Journal of Theology rich and provocative...this is an engaging work that has set the marker for all subsequent studies of Gregory. Peter widdicombe. The Journal of Theological Studies. This book is necessary addition to our sources of knowledge of the early church and I can commend it as a resources for the study of both systematic pastoral theology. Prof Graham Duncan, Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Christopher Beeley has provided excellent insight into the life, theology, and spirituality of Gregory of Nazianzus in Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God...Beeley's work should give the reader a desire to read Gregory himself to experience the elegance of his orations, the difficulties of his personality, and the great depths of his theology and spirituality. Keith Goad, Themelios This fine book hones in on the place of the doctrine of the Trinity in Gregory of Nazianzus's theology. Christopher Beeley shows how the Trinity was the glowing heart of Gregory's theology, informing every aspect of it - his understanding of Christ, of the Holy Spirit, his pastoral theology, and the place of prayer in the knowledge of God. Everything starts from and returns to the love flowing from 'My Trinity', as Gregory daringly calls it. Andrew Louth, author of t. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology This brilliant book is the first full-length study since the late 1940s of Gregory of Nazianzus's contribution to the development of classical Christian theology...Beeley brings together historical erudition, thorough knowledge of Gregory's many writings, and deep critical insight into his creative achievement as preacher, poet, and systematic thinker, in a way bound to change permanently our appreciation of the radical newness and the practical implications of his work. Brian E. Daley, author of Gregory of Nazianzus Beeley's book sheds new light on important aspects of Gregory's theology. But the major contribution of his argument is to show persuasively how all Gregory's doctrinal themes cohere in his soteriological understanding of the Trinity, an understanding that Beeley carefully locates in Gregory's own experience both as a Christian leader in controversial times and as a Christian thinker informed by scripture and by the classical Greek heritage. The book demonstrates how, for Gregory, the Trinity not only frames the entire Christian message of salvation, but also functions as the well-spring for the spiritual life and for pastoral care. Rowan A. Greer, author of hristian Hope and Christian Life

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Christopher A. Beeley is the Walter H. Gray Assistant Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics at Yale University Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and an Episcopal priest.

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