Letters, Volume 2 (186–368) (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 28) PDF Download

Author: Saint Basil
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 081321128X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Publisher: CCEL
ISBN: 1610250699
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 976

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Author: Basilius
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Correspondence of a Cappadocian Father. Basil the Great was born ca. AD 330 at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. He visited monasteries in Egypt and Palestine and sought out the most famous hermits in Syria and elsewhere to learn how to lead a pious and ascetic life; but he decided that communal monastic life and work were best. About 360 he founded in Pontus a convent to which his sister and widowed mother belonged. Ordained a presbyter in 365, in 370 he succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea, which included authority over all Pontus. He died in 379. Even today his reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Basil's Letters is in four volumes.

Author: Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813211778
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Author: St. Basil of Caesarea
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813227186
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Basil of Caesarea is considered one of the architects of the Pro-Nicene Trinitarian doctrine adopted at the Council of Constantinople in 381, which eastern and western Christians to this day profess as ""orthodox."" Nowhere is his Trinitarian theology more clearly expressed than in his first major doctrinal work, Against Eunomius, finished in 364 or 365 CE. Responding to Eunomius, whose Apology gave renewed impetus to a tradition of starkly subordinationist Trinitarian theology that would survive for decades, Basil's Against Eunomius reflects the intense controversy raging at that time among Christians across the Mediterranean world over who God is. In this treatise, Basil attempts to articulate a theology both of God's unitary essence and of the distinctive features that characterize the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--a distinction that some hail as the cornerstone of ""Cappadocian"" theology. In Against Eunomius, we see the clash not simply of two dogmatic positions on the doctrine of the Trinity, but of two fundamentally opposed theological methods. Basil's treatise is as much about how theology ought to be done and what human beings can and cannot know about God as it is about the exposition of Trinitarian doctrine. Thus Against Eunomius marks a turning point in the Trinitarian debates of the fourth century, for the first time addressing the methodological and epistemological differences that gave rise to theological differences. Amidst the polemical vitriol of Against Eunomius is a call to epistemological humility on the part of the theologian, a call to recognize the limitations of even the best theology. While Basil refined his theology through the course of his career, Against Eunomius remains a testament to his early theological development and a privileged window into the Trinitarian controversies of the mid-fourth century.

Author: Saint Gregory (of Nyssa)
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004152903
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This book presents 37 letters of Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-379) translated into English and equipped with scholarly notes. It includes a biography, testimonia from Basil and Gregory Nazianzen, 30 letters established by G. Pasquali and seven additional letters reassigned to Gregory.

Author: Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea)
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Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea)
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN: 9780913836743
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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This classic exposition of Trinitarian doctrine eloquently sets forth the distinction yet perpetual communion of the divine Persons. Without explicitly calling the Spirit "God, " St Basil demonstrates that He, like the Son, is of the same nature with the Father.

Author: Anna Silvas
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199273510
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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The Asketikon of St Basil the Great comprises a new English translation and studies which re-examine the emergence of monasticism in Asia Minor. Rufinus' translation of an earlier edition is compared with the Greek text of the longer edition, as a means of tracing the development of ideas. Silvas concludes that the antecedents of the monastic community of the Great Asketikon are best sought in the domestic ascetic movement in Anatolia as typified at Annisa under theleadership of Makrina.

Author: Silouan Fotineas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925730067
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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An examination of the Letters of Basil of Caesarea and their role as instruments of communion amongst the pro-Nicene churches.