On Christian Doctrine and Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Christian Doctrine and Practice write by Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea). This book was released on 2012. On Christian Doctrine and Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a priest and then bishop, Basil of Caesarea devoted sophisticated treatises to the Trinity and to articulating his vision of the Christian life. In his homilies St Basil distilled the best of his moral and theological teachings into forms readily accessible to his flock - and now to us. During his lifetime, Basil was recognized as one of the foremost rhetoricians of his day - a man supremely skilled in the art of speaking, instructing, persuading, and delighting at the same time. These rhetorical skills are on full display in the eleven Moral Homilies translated in this volume, seven of which appear in English for the first time.
The Asketikon of St Basil the Great
The Asketikon of St Basil the Great - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Asketikon of St Basil the Great write by Anna Silvas. This book was released on 2005-09-22. The Asketikon of St Basil the Great available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
On the Human Condition
On the Human Condition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Human Condition write by Saint Basil (Bishop of Caesarea). This book was released on 2005. On the Human Condition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This introduction brings together major themes in Greek Patristic anthropology - the image of God in the human being the Fall from Paradise, and the human condition in the present life and in the age to come. St. Basil the Great addresses the questions posed by the human condition with characteristic clarity, balance, and sobriety." "The volume begins with two discourses on the creation of humanity and a homily on the causes of evil, translated into English for the first time, and contains a new translation of a famous homily meditating on our human identity and experience. The volume also includes Letter 233 to Amphilochius of Iconium, St. Basil's spiritual son - a succinct and pointed discussion of how the human mind functions, the activity for which God created it, and how it can be used for good, evil, or morally neutral purposes. This letter complements the discussion of emotions in St. Basil's Homily against Anger, also included in this volume. Finally, the book includes excerpts from St. Basil's fatherly instructions to his ascetic communities, commonly known as the Long Rules, or the Great Asceticon."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Rule of St Basil in Latin and English
The Rule of St Basil in Latin and English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rule of St Basil in Latin and English write by Basilius (Caesariensis). This book was released on 2013. The Rule of St Basil in Latin and English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Basil of Caesarea (AD 32978), called the Great by later generations, was one of the fourth centurys greatest theologians and pastors. His influence on the foundation of monastic life was enormous. As he toured the early ascetic communities, members would ask Basil about various aspects of living the Gospel life. Their questions and Basils replies were taken down by tachygraphers and eventually became the Small Asketikon, first published in 366. The Regula Basilii is a Latin translation of this work, done in 397. It is one of the major sources of the Rule of Saint Benedict, and Benedict recommends it to zealous monks, calling it the rule of our holy father Basil. This volume represents a new Latin edition, translated and annotated in English by Anna M. Silvas. It also includes three extra questions and answers that survive only in the Syriac translation. Silvas balances masterfully between the rigors of academic research and the interests of an intelligent, non-specialist readership. This volume promises to become an indispensable resource in understanding both the history and the spirituality of monastic life.
De Spiritu Sancto (of the Holy Spirit)
De Spiritu Sancto (of the Holy Spirit) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook De Spiritu Sancto (of the Holy Spirit) write by St. Basil St. Basil the Great. This book was released on 2015-12-06. De Spiritu Sancto (of the Holy Spirit) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, (330 -379) was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor (modern-day Kayseri, Turkey). St. Basil was born into the wealthy family of Basil the Elder, a famous rhetor,and Emmelia of Caesarea. His parents were known for their piety, and his maternal grandfather was a Christian martyr, executed in the years prior to Constantine I's conversion. The principal theological writings of Basil are his De Spirity Sancto (On the Holy Spirit), a lucid and edifying appeal to Scripture and early Christian tradition (to prove the divinity of the Holy Spirit), and his Refutation of the Apology of the Impious Eunomius, written in 363 or 364, three books against Eunomius of Cyzicus, the chief exponent of Anomoian Arianism. The first three books of the Refutation are his work; the fourth and fifth books that are usually included do not belong to Basil, or to Apollinaris of Laodicea, but probably to Didymus "the Blind" of Alexandria.
