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“Questions of beauty are at the heart of theological knowledge. Beauty is central to theology, not only because through beauty we see the true and love the good, but also because at the heart of Christianity is the conviction that Christ is the form of God, that it is ‘through form [that] the lightning-bolt of eternal beauty flash[es].’”

“The homiletic genre is particularly important given the weight Gregory accords rhetoric in training people into the perception of beauty, for the homily is a genre of teaching and exhortation. In reading those homilies, I attend to Gregory’s use of language to train his hearers into new contexts of fittingness and new ways of perceiving.”