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Published: 04 June 2009
... victim Mother Maria Skobtsova. The chapter concludes with a historian's reflection on an Orthodox icon of Basil of Caesarea and St. Alexis, the Syriac “Man of God.” hospitality Abraham to angelic visitors L'Abri fellowship Ambrose of Milan Euphemia of Amida famine at Amida global community...
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Published: 12 April 2000
...This chapter examines the issue of friendship in Gregory of Nazianzus' funeral oration for Basil of Caesarea. It argues that Gregory was taking a stand in his praise of his special relation with Basil by enshrining it in a discourse dedicated to the saint when he was deceased and thus removed from...
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Published: 12 April 2000
...This chapter examines the issues of same-sex love and divine desire in Gregory of Nazianzus' funeral oration for Basil of Caesarea. It suggests that Gregory's understanding of friendship as a reciprocal loving relationship between two equals united in their quest for divine truth was irreconcilable...
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Published: 04 June 2016
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Published: 06 October 2022
... on whom the book focuses: Galen of Pergamon, Basil of Caesarea, Evagrius Ponticus, John Cassian, and John Climacus. Basil, Evagrius, Cassian, and John may be taken to represent threads—albeit influential ones—in a variegated tapestry of late antique spiritual direction. I do not aim...
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Published: 22 June 2023
... of three martyr texts from fourth- and fifth-century Greek Christian authors: Asterius of Amasea, John Chrysostom, and Basil of Caesarea. These comparative examples allow us to see that Augustine is part of a larger rhetorical project in late antique Christian martyr discourse, though his contribution may...
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Published: 12 November 2015
... Snowdon Mount Wordsworth Mary née Hutchinson Wordsworth William life and career Ganges river Windermere Bruhn Mark J Cicero Ciceronian The Recluse millenarianism nature philosophy stoicism Home at Grasmere The Prospectus Tuft of Primroses Basil of Caesarea Nab Well. Writing...
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Published: 22 February 2007
... that these elections were by no means legitimate. Basil of Caesarea election of Eusebius Samosata Eusebius Caesarea in Cappadocia election popular participation in elections Bassian Ephesus Stephen Ephesus disputed election Justinian rules for elections Stephen of Larissa Corruption election disputes Basil...
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Published: 06 November 2014
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Published: 03 July 2008
... light, it identifies the major differences between Gregory's work and that of Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa, who have previously been assumed to agree with one another on most matters of theological importance. Finally, it highlights Gregory's magisterial achievement as a representative...
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Published: 28 October 2004
...Focuses on Basil of Caesarea as both a key figure in the developments of these years and as a key example of wider theological shifts. Shows how Basil slowly developed towards his mature theological position, distinguishing between God’s unity at the level of ousia...
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Published: 01 October 2009
...Chapter 5 is the first of two chapters on Basil of Caesarea. It has two principal sections. First, it outlines Basil's views about religious language generally. For Basil, theological terms applied both to created reality and to God mean the same thing in the two cases, although they need...
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Published: 01 March 2016
... phenomenalization revealed only by itself unexpected arrival arrivage Basil of Caesarea Bible the given the Holy Spirit God the Joachim of Fiore John Saint Paul Saint phenomenon revealing function of iconoclasm identity principle of Rev 1 8 Nicaea Second Council of phenomenology Jn 14 7–10 Rom 8...
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Published: 07 March 2013
... detailed a conservative approach to reading: he trusted the ability of words to represent specific, unique meanings, and he drew conclusions about Christ based on words that could be said of him. Within a few years of Eunomius’s work, Basil of Caesarea had written a treatise Against Eunomius...
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Published: 21 March 2019
... distinction based on Basil of Caesarea’s distinction between the divine essence and its attributes. Testimony to this distinction was sought in the gospel accounts of the transfiguration of Christ, which thus became the subject of detailed exegesis. This chapter discusses the distinctions Palamas sought...
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Published: 11 February 2022
... education. Christian thinkers sought to develop an emphatically religious education in critical engagement with classical ideals of learning. Key authors of the fourth and fifth centuries tried to define a genuinely Christian way of intellectual and moral upbringing: the Greeks Basil of Caesarea and John...
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Published online: 01 November 2003
Published in print: 09 August 2001
... of Gregory of Nazianzus’ sermon addressing a potentially violent mob during an agricultural crisis, a sermon that brings together many of the themes discussed in previous chapters. An Appendix supplies provisional English translations of Basil of Caesarea's sermon “In time of famine and drought” and Gregory...
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Published: 18 October 2012
... and complexes of meaning pertaining to the triune Creator’s broader economy. More doxologically or spiritually oriented commentary on the Hexaemeron aimed primarily at encouraging worship of the Creator and deeper contemplation of creation, as evidenced in the Hexaemeral sermons of Basil of Caesarea and Ambrose...
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Published: 28 October 2004
..., and ends with a consideration of Theodosius’s accession. Athanasius of Alexandria Basil of Caesarea Gregory of Nazianzus Homoians Pro‐Nicenes Rousseau P Valens Emperor Anthimus of Tyana Gregory of Nyssa Hanson R P C Jones A H M McGuckin J A Van Dam R Amphilochius of Iconium Atarbius...
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Published: 31 October 2017
...This chapter examines the theologies of salvation of the Cappadocian Fathers—Basil of Caesarea, his younger brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their friend Gregory of Nazianzus. The theology of the Cappadocians, though with disagreements among the members at points, is relatively unified under the ideas...