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4 days ago · St. Basil the Great is one of those giants in our faith whose words, filled with the fire of conviction, echo across the centuries. A fourth-century bishop, he took up the fight against Arianism after the death of St. Athanasius, defying worldly powers and even pressure from his fellow bishops in order to defend the divinity of Christ.
2 days ago · In a blistering sermon on Jesus’ parable of the Rich Fool (Luke 12:13–21), Basil declared, ‘The Bread that you hold back belongs to the hungry. The coat that you guard in a chest belongs to the naked.The shoes that you have left wasting away belong to the shoeless. The silver that you have buried in the ground belongs to the needy.
5 days ago · An interesting case to show how liturgy shapes our conception of God can be found in the work of one of the great Cappadocian Fathers, Basil of Caesarea. In his treatise on the Holy Spirit, Basil argues for the divinity of the Holy Ghost against the semi-Arians by referring to the baptismal formula which works on the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
3 days ago · Probably the first matter considered was the status of Eusebius of Caesarea and the other bishops excommunicated at Antioch, as this would determine whether they could participate in the rest of the council. According to Eusebius, his profession of faith was accepted and he was restored.
4 days ago · As opposed to philanthrōpia, the love of humankind of Christ, who presents himself as an expiatory sacrifice for the sins of humankind out of love for it, Satan appears among early church teachers, such as Basil of Caesarea in the 4th century, as the misanthrōpos, the hater of humanity; vis-à-vis the bringer of heavenly beauty, he ...
6 days ago · Simply stated, the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura (“Scripture alone”) teaches that every teaching in Christian theology (everything pertaining to “faith and practice”) must be able to be derived from Scripture alone.
3 days ago · In the Classical World the principal shrine to Pan was to be found at the base of Mount Hermon, known as Caesarea Paneas — or, as known more familiarly to us from the Bible, as Caesarea Philippi. It was there, into a cliff above the city, that people built shrines and temples to Pan.
