Abstract

In Oratio 38, Gregory of Nazianzus, explains the incarnation of Christ in a very careful and homiletic manner. He avoids technical language of the philosophical discussion and the heating debate with the Eunomian, Homean and Apollinaristic theology. The double side of the incarnate Christ, the divinity and the human sarx, are present in terms like theophany and genethlia – even if physis is not used in a technical sense. Even with the terms of mixis and krasis, Gregory does not want to use a certain technical classification of the philosophical language of his time, but he uses current words and concepts, explaining the connection between sarx and divinity.