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Basil, St, ‘the Great’
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Basil, St, ‘the Great’ (
c.330–79). One of the three
Cappadocian fathers, and the first of the three Holy Hierarchs of the E. Church. Besides his eloquence and personal holiness, Basil was known for his talent for administration. His two monastic rules (see below) determined the structure of E. Christian monasticism ever since. He built hospitals and hostels alongside church buildings in Caesarea, and organized relief for the poor. His writings, in addition to letters, are a treatise
On the Holy Spirit, three anti-Arian books
Against Eunomius, and homilies. Feast day in W., 2 Jan.; in the E., 1 Jan.
The
Rule of Basil has two forms, each set out as a series of questions and answers about the monastic life. Stopping well short of the extreme deprivations of the desert hermits, it prescribed liturgical prayer at fixed hours, manual work, poverty and chastity, community life, care for the poor, and the education of children. The present form of the rule is a revision by
Theodore of Studios (d. 826).
The Liturgy of Basil is used in the E. Church in place of that of
Chrysostom on a few fixed days (e.g. the Sundays in
Lent) each year.
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Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution...Most of what we used to know about Eunomius, whom church historians pigeon-holed...latter setting the tone by describing Eunomius's father, a farmer, as "an excellent...
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Defining the boundaries of orthodoxy: Eunomius in the anti-Jewish polemic of his Cappadocian opponents.
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Gregory of Nyssa against their opponent Eunomius helped to shape the development of Christian...opponents with Jews. By claiming that Eunomius and his followers were too Jewish in...Cappadocians' struggle against Aetius and Eunomius and their followers. (6) Nevertheless...
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The Fatherhood of God from Origen to Athanasius.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...who favored fatherson language, and Eunomius of Cyzicus and Eudoxius of Antioch...use of "father" for God is thought by Eunomius and Eudoxius to attribute passion to...owes nothing to Athanasius, and that of Eunomius and Eudoxius may owe just as little to...
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The Power of God: Dunamis in Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of post-Nicene theology, particularly Gregory's Against Eunomius, B. turns his attention in his final three chapters to pro...nature and power in the Trinity. Interestingly, he reads both Eunomius and Gregory as members of a mainstream Christian consensus...
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Decoding Early Christianity: Truth and Legend in the Early Church
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...once the "Christian consensus" has moved to another position. He illustrates this well by the cases of Paul of Samosata and Eunomius of Cyzicus, each of whom held a view that had been quite acceptable no less than a century earlier. The third example, Origen...
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Passion and Paradise: Human and Divine Emotion in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...responses by the Cappadocians to the beliefs expressed by the theological parties associated with the writings of Aetius and Eunomius, socalled Neo-Arians. Smiths other important contribution is his familiarity with the broader traditions of Platonism...
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Church History.(Writings from the Greco-Roman World, vol. 23)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...criticized famous Nicene champions such as Athanasius of Alexandria and Basil of Caesarea. His heroes instead were Aetius and Eunomius, who had promoted the doctrine that the Father and the Son in the Trinity were "dissimilar." As a heterodox theologian...
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Bradshaw, David. Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Neoplatonism. In Jamblichus, energeia means divine power man can participate in (p. 146). In Christian authors as well as in Eunomius the term has different shades of meaning. For Gregory of Nyssa, the divine names signify operations (energeiai). Divine...
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Studien zum Johanneskommentar des Theodor von Mopsuestia.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the categories T. lists in his conclusion). Most examples can be related to the two opponents Theodore actually names, Eunomius and Asterius (see 2-7, 9, 12-14, 16-17, 19, 21, 23). A second group involves the problem of reconciling the...
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Threefold mystery: Charles Freeman explains why AD 381 was a defining moment in the history of European thought.(HISTORY BEHIND THE HEADLINES)
Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...procession' were thrown about and discussed with vigour. One group, known as the Eunomians after their most gifted exponent, Eunomius, were brilliant in their dissection of each concept in support of their claim that Father and Son were actually 'unlike...
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Eunomius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eunomius , c.AD 333-AD 393?, bishop of Cyzicus...God the Son. Using Platonic arguments, Eunomius taught that by definition God was unbegotten...refuted him in his doctrinal work Against Eunomius (364). The Eunomians were condemned...
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Basil, St, ‘the Great’
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...involved him in controversies with the extreme Arian party led by Eunomius , as well as with the Pneumatomachi , who denied the Divinity...Holy Spirit’, and three ‘Books against Eunomius’. With St Gregory of Nazianzus he compiled the...
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Gregory of Nyssa, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...deposed by the Arians in 376, but regained his see in 378. His chief theological works are polemical treatises against Eunomius , Apollinarius , and the Tritheistic teaching of a certain Ablabius. In his ‘Catechetical Orations’...
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Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Constantinople, First Council of ). His fame rests on his theological works, most of which were controversial, against Eunomius, Apollinarians, and against the teachings of Jews and pagans ( Oratio catechetica ). Feast: Mar. 9.
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Saint Basil the Great
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Byzantine East. His revision of the liturgy is occasionally used in the Byzantine rite. His works On the Holy Ghost and Against Eunomius are elegant, acute defenses of the Catholic system. In the West his feast is June 14. Bibliography: See his letters tr...
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