Basil of Caesarea

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Hardcover. Fine with personal owner name and date in neat ink to front free endpaper; in a near fine faintly sunned jacket with a few tiny pressure identations to rear. See photos. in near fine dust-jacket. Quarto in black and blue illus jacket; xix, 412 pages: map; 25 cmbibliographical references (pages 365-389) and indexes. "Basil of Caesarea is thought of most often as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life in the eastern church. In this new biographical study, however, controversy is no longer seen as the central preoccupation of his life nor are his ascetic initiatives viewed as separable from his pastoral concern for all Christians. Basil's letters, sermons, and theological treatises, together with the testimonies of his relatives and friends, reveal a man beset by doubt. He demanded loyalty, but gave it also, and made it a central feature of his church. In Rousseau's portrait, Basil's understanding of human nature emerges as his major legacy." -Publisher // Contents: I.A Cappadocian Family -- II. Athens -- III. The Philosophic Life -- IV. Eunomius -- V. City and Church -- VI. The Ascetic Writings -- VII. Eustathius and Other Friends -- VIII. Basil on the World Stage -- IX. 'We Seek the Ancient Fatherland' -- Appendices I: Valens's Visits to Caesarea -- Appendices II: The Formation of the Asceticon -- Appendices III: The Date of Basil's Death and of the Hexaemeron -- Bibliography: Supplement: The Numbering of the Homilies. // Christian saints -- Turkey -- Biography. Bishops -- Turkey -- Biography. Saints chrétiens -- Turquie -- Biographies. Évêques -- Turquie -- Biographies. 11.51 early Christianity. Bishops. Christian saints. Christian saints -- Turkey -- Biography. Bishops -- Turkey -- Biography. Fathers of the church, Greek. Saints chrétiens -- Turquie -- Biographies. Named Person: Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Basile, saint, évêque de Césarée, approximately 329-379. Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, approximately 329-379. Basilius, de Grote, ca. 330-379. Basile de Césarée.