Author: Paul Jonathan FedwickPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888444127
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Papers presented at a symposium held in Toronto, June 10-16, 1979.
Basil of Caesarea, Christian, Humanist, Ascetic
Author: Paul Jonathan FedwickPublisher: PIMS
ISBN: 9780888444127
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Papers presented at a symposium held in Toronto, June 10-16, 1979.
Basil of Caesarea, Christian, Humanist, Ascetic
Author: Paul Jonathan FedwickBasil of Caesarea, Christian, humanist, ascetic
Author: The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea
Author: Stephen M. HildebrandPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813214734
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book explores Basil's Trinitarian thought as the meeting place of the worlds within which he lived, that of ancient Greek culture and learning, and that of Christian faith lived in the liturgy and expressed in the Scripture.
Basil of Caesarea
Author: Paul Jonathan FedwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Illumination in Basil of Caesarea's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Author: Timothy P. McConnellPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451484445
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Although Basil of Caesarea was the first to write a discourse on the Holy Spirit, many scholars have since questioned if he fully believed in the Spirit’s divinity. Timothy P. McConnell argues that Basil did regard the Spirit as fully divine and an equal Person of the Trinity. However, Basil refused to use philosophical terminology to make the point, preferring to use what the Spirit revealed through divine act and Scripture. Thus, “illumination” becomes the primary paradigm for Basil, which later theologians would come to call revelation, setting the stage for this study’s high relevance for contemporary thought.
Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth-Century Palestine
Author: Cornelia B. HornPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191535087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Life of Peter the Iberian by John Rufus records the ascetic struggle of a fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian bishop of Mayyuma, Palestine. Cornelia Horn presents a historical-critical study of the only substantial anti-Chalcedonian witness to the history of the conflict in Palestine and analyses the formative period of fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy, theology, and its ascetic expression. Important themes are pilgrimage as an ascetic ideal and asceticism as source of theological authority. Archaeological data on many places in the Levant and textual sources in Syriac, Coptic, Greek, Armenian, and Georgian are examined. This book contributes to our understanding of the origins of anti-Chalcedonian theology and the influence of asceticism on its development, the Christian topography of the Levant, and the history of the anti-Chalcedonian movement in Palestine.
Basil of Caesarea
Author: Andrew Radde-GallwitzPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1621893898
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Studying the early church can feel like entering a maze of bishops, emperors, councils, and arcane controversies. This book introduces early Christian theology by focusing on one particularly influential figure, Basil of Caesarea (ca. AD 330-378). It views Basil against the backdrop of a Roman Empire that was adopting Christianity. In Basil's day, Christians were looking for unity in the teaching and practice of their faith. This study acquaints the student with Basil's brilliant--and often neglected--theological writings. In particular, Saint Basil's reflections on the Trinity emerge from these pages as fascinating and illuminating testimonies to the faith of early Christians.
The Asketikon of St Basil the Great
Author: Anna M. SilvasPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191569275
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Asketikon of St Basil the Great comprises a new English translation and studies which re-examine the emergence of monasticism in Asia Minor. The Regula Basilii, translated by Rufinus from Basil's Small Asketikon, is closely compared with the Greek text of the longer edition, as a means to tracing the development of ideas. Silvas concludes that the antecedents of the monastic community of the Great Asketikon are best sought not in some kind of sub-orthodox modus vivendi of male and female ascetics living together and increasingly curbed by an emerging neo-Nicene orthodoxy less favourable to women ('homoiousian asceticism'), but in the local domestic ascetic movement in Anatolia as typified in the developments at Annisa under the leadership of Makrina.
Asceticism and Its Critics
Author: Oliver FreibergerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199719013
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life-- the withdrawal from the world, combined with practices that seriously affect basic bodily needs, up to extreme forms of self-mortification --as the ultimate form of a true religious quest. This view is rooted in hagiographic descriptions of prominent ascetics and in other literary accounts that praise the ascetic life-style. Scholars have often overlooked, however, that in the history of religions ascetic beliefs and practices have also been strongly criticized, by followers of the same religious tradition as well as by outsiders. The respective sources provide sufficient evidence of such critical strands but surprisingly as yet no attempt has been made to analyze this criticism of asceticism systematically. This book is a first attempt of filling this gap. Ten studies present cases from both Asian and European traditions: classical and medieval Hinduism, early and contemporary Buddhism in South and East Asia, European antiquity, early and medieval Christianity, and 19th/20th century Aryan religion. Focusing on the critics of asceticism, their motives, their arguments, and the targets of their critique, these studies provide a broad range of issues for comparison. They suggest that the critique of asceticism is based on a worldview differing from and competing with the ascetic worldview, often in one and the same historical context. The book demonstrates that examining the critics of asceticism helps understand better the complexity of religious traditions and their cultural contexts. The comparative analysis, moreover, shows that the criticism of asceticism reflects a religious worldview as significant and widespread in the history of religions as asceticism itself is.