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

Basil the Great (330-379) is one of the most important figures in Christian history and a theologian and spiritual teacher of ecumenical significance. At a time when the sources of their riche spiritual heritage are being re-appropriated by Christians of many traditions, it is strange that little attention has so far been given to Basilian spirituality.
A Life Pleasing to God tells the story of Basil's own spiritual development in the theologically turbulent fourth-century. Its core is a study of those passages of the Asceticon which illustrate his understanding of the foundation of the Christian life and lay out the possibilities, and problems, of Christian community.

Product details

• Authors: Augustine Holmes
• Publisher: Cistercian Publications c/o Liturgical Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780879076894
• ISBN: 978-0-87907-689-4
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 437 g
• Series: Cistercian Studies; Cistercian Studies; Cistercian Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works