Proclaiming the Gospel with Miraculous Gifts in the Postbiblical Early Church
6Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Graeca, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris: J. P. Migne, 1857-66), 46:cols. 893-958 (henceforth PG).
7Basil of Cappadocia, On the Holy Spirit 74, NPF 2nd series 8:46-47.
8Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus, PG 46: cols. 893-958.
9Socrates, Ecclesiastical History 27, NPF 2nd series 2:111-112.
10Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men 65, NPF 2nd series 3: 376.
11Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 6.30, NPF 2nd series 1: 275-6.
12On the Holy Spirit, NPF 2nd series 8: 1-50.
13Gregory Nazianzen, The Panegyric on St. Basil 63, NPF 2nd series 7: 416.
14Augustine, On the Trinity, NPF 1st series 3: 17-228.
15Augustine, City of God 22.8, NPF 1st series 2: 490.
16Augustine, City of God 10.12, NPF 1st series 2: 188-89.
17Ibid.
18Augustine, The Epistle of St. John homily 6.13, NPF 1st series 7: 500.
19Augustine, On the Gospel of St. John 32.7, NPF 1st series 7: 195.
20Augustine, Homily 6.10 (on the Epistles of St. John), NPF 1st series 7: 497-8; On Baptism 3.16.21, NPF 1st series 4:443; On the Gospel of St. John 32.7, NPF 1st series 7:195.
21Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Evangelia, Patrologia cursus completus. Series Latina, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris: J. P. Migne, 1844-1904), 76: col. 1091 (henceforth PL).
22Gregory the Great, Dialogues, trans. Odo John Zimmerman (New York: Fathers of the Church, 1959), 6.
23Dialogues 2 prologue, Zimmerman 56.
24That I Cor. 14:24-25 refers to prophetic revelation which includes supernatural insight into the secrets of people’s hearts is noted by A. Oepke, TDNT, vol. 3, p. 976, n. 42; and Wayne Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy, pp. 136-137.
25Dialogues 2.13, 15, 16, 26, 30, 32; Zimmerman 77-78, 80, 81, 83, 95, 98, 101.
26Dialogues 3.33, Zimmerman 172-73.
27Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Evangelia, PL 76:cols 1075-1312.
28Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Hiezechihelem prophetam, ed. M. Adriaen, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 142 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1971), 254-255 (henceforth CCL).
29Gregory the Great, Letters 3.61, 8.29, CCL 140 and 140a, ed. D. Norberg, (Turnhout: Brepols, 1982), 209-211, 550-553.
30Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob, ed. M. Adriaen, CCL 143b (Turnhout: Brepols, 1979-85), 1346.
31See Stanley M. Burgess, The Spirit and the Church: Antiquity (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1984), 65-68.
32Sulpicius Severus. Dialogi 2.5, 3.10, Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, ed. C. Halm (Vienna, 1866), 1:186, 208.
33Dialogues 3 prologue, Zimmerman 111-114.
34Athanasius, Life of Antony, PG 26:cols. 835-975; NPF 2nd series 4: 188-221.
35Sources for the life of Pseudo-Macarius are Socrates, Ecclesiastical History 4.23, NPF 2nd series 2:107; Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History 3.14, NPF 2nd series 2:291; Palladius, Lausiac History 17, ed. Robert T. Meyer Ancient Christian Writers (New York: Newman Press, 1965), 34; Rufinus, History of the Monks 28, PL 21: cols.449-52, and Rufinus, Apology 1.19, NPF 2nd series 3:444.
36Historia monachorum in Aegypto, ed. A. J. Festugière, Subsidia hagiographica 53 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1971). This work has been translated by Norman Russell (Oxford: Mowbray; Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1981).
Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the NIV®.
This chapter is from Gary S. Greig and Kevin N. Springer, eds., The Kingdom and the Power: Are Healing and the Spiritual Gifts Used by Jesus and the Early Church Meant for the Church Today? A Biblical Look at How to Bring the Gospel to the World with Power (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1993). Used with permission.
Category: Church History, Summer 2008