The Authenticity of Gregory Nazianzen's Five Theological Orations

THE AUTHENTICITY OF GREGORY NAZIANZEN'S FIVE THEOLOGICAL ORATIONS BY FREDERICK W. NORRIS In 1973 Reinoud Weijenborg published two articles which attempted to establish that the last three Theological Orations attributed to Gregory were written by Maximus the Cynic also known as Evagrius of Pontus.' For Weijenborg these studies were the beginning of a project in which he proposed to demonstrate that thirty-two of the forty-five ora- tions in the Nazianzen corpus are not authentic He has published two further papers which attempt to prove that Orations 25 and 11 should be seen as Evagrian.3 Paul Gallay found the project so

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