Nazianzen’s Corpus
The Works of Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nazianzus, called the Theologian
The Theologian, who kept trying to leave, and eventually did.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 192
- Stat total
- 322
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
Forty-five orations, some two hundred and fifty letters, and around seventeen thousand lines of verse — he went on writing poetry after he had stopped doing anything else. Deep Stamina.
The church has called two men "the Theologian": the apostle John, and this one. The creed said on Sundays is in his vocabulary, and he was in the room when it was written — right up until he walked out.
Quoted so relentlessly by everyone after him that the text can be checked against a thousand borrowings. A strong Greek tradition and an early Latin one.
In every anthology of the fathers there is, and the funeral oration for Basil is the portrait everybody has read. It takes the floor first almost anywhere.
Cited for this book
He did not want any of it. He ran away from his own ordination and wrote a book explaining why, was made bishop of a village he refused to set foot in, and was finally brought to Constantinople to preach the Nicene faith in a city where every church belonged to the other side — which he did, in a converted room, until it worked. Then the council he had won made his own seat the thing it was arguing about, and he resigned in the middle of it and went home to write poetry.
Development
A book develops as it is read — the fragment becomes the work, the work becomes the corpus.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | You Have Not Met a Bishop | History | Argument | 82 | 100% | 10 |
| 36 | Word Made Flesh | Christology | Argument | 70 | 100% | 6 |
| 40 | Farewell, My Throne | Ecclesiology | Argument | 76 | 100% | 15 |