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The Great Catechism

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The Great CatechismSt. Gregory of Nyssa

The Great Catechism

Oratio Catechetica Magna, the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Sacraments, in forty chapters

By St. Gregory of Nyssa

2 h 43 min · Age of the Councils · Greek and Byzantine

Gregory's catechist's notebook: how to teach the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Atonement, and the Sacraments to Jews, pagans, Manicheans, and Arians. One of the great systematic theological works of the fourth century, alongside Athanasius on the Incarnation and Basil on the Holy Spirit.

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Source: Translated by William Moore and Henry Austin Wilson in A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Series II, Vol. 5, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (Christian Literature Publishing Co., Buffalo, 1893). Public domain. Source text via Wikisource, per-chapter pages.