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Gregory of Nyssa · 379 · Treatise
For readers interested in what it means to be made in God's image, body and mind together; the richest Christian treatment of human nature before Augustine, and readable without special training.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 379 · Treatise
For readers of Basil's Hexaemeron who want its sequel: Gregory's defence of his brother's six days and his own account of creation as a single act unfolding in order; for students more than general readers.
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Gregory of Nazianzus · 379–381 · Sermon
For anyone studying the doctrine of the Trinity, and for a reader who wants the one work of Gregory's that matters most; not a first book for a newcomer to the fathers.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380–383 · Treatise
For students of the Arian controversy and of how the Cappadocians argued about God's names and nature; not a work to read through, and not for a first meeting with Gregory.
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Evagrius Ponticus · 380–399 · Treatise
The Chapters on Prayer stands as one of the most influential works on contemplative prayer in Christian history, written by Evagrius Ponticus during his years as a desert monk in Egypt in…
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Jerome · 380 · Book
For historians: Jerome's Latin version of Eusebius's chronological tables, carried on to 378 with his own entries on the Latin writers and the emperors; the backbone of medieval chronology, and the one history book he wrote.
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Didymus the Blind · 380–398 · Commentary
Didymus the Blind composed this extensive commentary on the Book of Job during the late fourth century while leading the catechetical school of Alexandria. As one of the great exegetes of the…
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Dogmatic Treatises Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume V: Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, etc.
Gregory of Nyssa · 380–395 · Book
For readers who want the whole 1893 English Gregory in one place; a collection, not a work, and better entered through its individual treatises.
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Evagrius Ponticus · 380–399 · Treatise
The Kephalaia Gnostika represents Evagrius of Pontus's most advanced theological treatise, composed in the final decades of the fourth century during his years as a desert monk in Egypt. Written as a…
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380–394 · Commentary
For readers drawn to the mystical reading of the Song as the soul's endless ascent into God; his most searching spiritual work, best read after the Life of Moses and not as an introduction.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380 · Treatise
For anyone, and the place to start: a brother's short, affectionate account of his sister's life and death, and the first portrait of a woman as teacher and ascetic in Christian literature.
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On Pilgrimages Epistula II: De iis qui adeunt Hierosolyma
Gregory of Nyssa · 380–386 · Letter
For readers curious about early Christian pilgrimage and a bishop who had been to Jerusalem and advised others not to go; a short letter, often quoted.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380–385 · Sermon
For readers who pray the Sermon on the Mount and want a fourth-century preacher's reading of each Beatitude as a step of ascent; there is no free English translation, so this is for those who read Greek or will buy Graef's.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380–390 · Treatise
For anyone who wants the divinity of the Son and the Spirit argued in a few pages for a soldier; the shortest of his dogmatic works and the easiest.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380–383 · Treatise
For students of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit at the time of the Council of Constantinople; a short, sharp defence of the Spirit's divinity, incomplete at the end.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380–381 · Letter
For readers who want the Cappadocian doctrine of the Trinity in a few pages addressed to a layman; printed among Basil's letters for centuries, and a good first taste of Gregory's dogmatic writing.
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Gregory of Nyssa · 380–385 · Sermon
For readers who want the Lord's Prayer preached petition by petition, with a famous passage on the Spirit's procession in the third homily; no free English exists, so this is for Greek readers or buyers of Graef's translation.
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Didymus the Blind · 380–398 · Treatise
Didymus the Blind's treatise on the Trinity emerged from the theological turbulence of the late fourth century, when the church was still working out the implications of Nicaea's affirmation that Christ is…
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Gregory of Nazianzus · 380 · Sermon
For readers who know Athanasius and want the fourth century's own verdict on him; also the clearest short account of the Arian struggle from the Nicene side.
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Jerome · 380–420 · Book
For readers who want the 1893 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers volume as a whole — about 150 letters, nine treatises and the Vulgate prefaces with long introductions; the individual works are catalogued separately.
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Evagrius Ponticus · 380–399 · Commentary
The Scholia on Proverbs represents Evagrius of Pontus's mature biblical exegesis, composed during his final decades in the Egyptian desert between 380 and 399. Written for fellow monks seeking to understand Scripture's…
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Evagrius Ponticus · 380–400 · Treatise
The Antirrhetikos emerges from the desert monasticism of fourth-century Egypt, where Evagrius of Pontus developed his systematic approach to spiritual warfare through direct engagement with demonic thoughts. Writing for monks who faced…
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Evagrius Ponticus · 380–400 · Treatise
The Gnostikos is Evagrius of Pontus's manual for the advanced spiritual teacher, written in the late fourth century for monks who had progressed beyond basic ascetic practice to become guides for others.…
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Evagrius Ponticus · 380–399 · Treatise
The Praktikos stands as Evagrius Ponticus's foundational manual for the ascetic life, written during his years as a desert monk in Egypt's Nitrian wilderness in the late fourth century. Composed for fellow…
