The Golden Mouth of Gregory Nazianzos

Gregory Nazianzos was a pagan intellectual, but the Christians understood that he can truly contribute to this kind of mutual flourishing and well-being through his capacity to proclaim the gospel. He's in an era when rhetoricians are rock stars, right? This guy is spitting like the meanest bars. And so you want him on your side. But also it's not just that. Remember that his mature state of his career took place during the time of Julian and so Julian rewalled against Christianity. One of the sort of means to ostracize the Christians from culture, from kind of any participation in society and more global scale was to ban them from having access to classical education