Basil: Letters, Volume IV, Letters 249-368. Address to Young Men on Greek Literature. (Loeb Classical Library No. 270)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674992989 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 461 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-23 |
| Language | : | Ancient Greek |
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A Truly Wonderful Mind St. Basil is one of the most eloquent fathers of the Church. This volume is a collection of letters. But perhaps most importantly, it contains an essay of his, To Young Men. This essay discusses clearly and succinctly the reasonable use and application of C. Finest kind nadinka I bought the set of four volumes of St Basil's mail for a seminary academic; translator gets his highest marks.
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. Ordained a presbyter in 365, in 370 he succeeded Eusebius in the archbishopric of Caesarea, which included authority over all Pontus. 330 CE at Caesarea in Cappadocia into a family noted for piety. For a short time he held a chair of rhetoric at Caesarea, and was then baptized. Even today his reform of monastic life in the east is the basis of modern Greek and Slavonic monasteries. He died in 379. He was at Constantinople and Athens for several years as a student with Gregory of Nazianzus and was much influenced by Origen. About 360 he founded in Pontus a convent to which his sister and widowed mother belonged. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Basil's Letters is in four volumes.. Basil the Great was born ca