A Life Pleasing to God: The Spirituality of the Rules of St Basil

Anglican Theological Review | July 1, 2001| | Copyright

A Life Pleasing to God: The Spirituality of the Rules of St Basil. By Augustine Holmes, OSB. Cistercian Studies Series 189. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 2000. xxii + 282 pp. $18.95 (paper).

Around the year 520, an obscure and anonymous monk-biographer in the forested wilds of eastern Gaul (France, near present-day Geneva), while cataloguing worthy monastic predecessors, wrote of "the institutions of the holy and eminent Basil, bishop of the episcopal see of Cappadocia." About the same time Saint Benedict was both using and recommending Basil's Small Asceticon in his Rule. ...

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