The One and the Many by Gregory of Nazianzus
In recent times two things have greatly concerned me. The first is the lack of Trinitarian emphasis in the modern Reformed faith. Is it not the case that you could attend worship in a Reformed church for weeks on end and not recognise anything distinctly Trinitarian about it? Secondly, I am concerned about the near absolute ignorance of the Patristics (in ten years of reading Christian books, I have only read one by an Early Church Father); why are we (perhaps not deliberately) treating with contempt the people who wrote the great Creeds of our faith?
Anyway, enough ranting for now; in the meantime here is a quote on the Trinity from Gregory of Nazianzus which John Calvin says ‘vastly delights me’:
“I cannot think on the one without being quickly encircled by the splendour of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightaway carried back to the one.” View article…
