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Saint Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems: Concerning His Own Affairs, Concerning Himself and the Bishops, Concerning His Own Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Raised in a multi-generational Christian family, Gregory of Nazianzus was also well-educated, well-traveled, and tutored in almost every discipline of the Greek arts, philosophies, sciences, and literatures. Among his studies must have included Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius of Rhodes, Thucydides, Plutarch, Herodotus, Lucian, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle—the list goes on. The numerous poems written by...

themselves no good and are harassed by anxieties that wreck their serenity. [305] On the other hand, those that stay detached are somehow more stable and turn with quiet mind to God. But their charity is narrow, they are useful only to themselves, the life they live is unsocial and harsh. I decided upon a middle way24 between the life without ties and the life of mixing, [310] one which would combine the serenity of the former with the practical use of the latter. There was moreover a stronger consideration,
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