Basil of Caesarea (Paperback)

Acknowledgements

Preface

Abbreviations

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Life and Times

Background and Early Life

The Ascetic Turn

Episcopate

Further Reading

Chapter 2: Vision

Scripture

The Physical World

The Human Person

The Moral and Ascetic Life

God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Further Reading

Part 2: Texts

Chapter 3: Churchman and Statesman

Section 1: Suffragan Bishops and Presbyters

Section 2: Engagement with a Wider Circle of Bishops

Section 3: Patronage

Section 4: Canons

Section 5: Consolation

Chapter 4: Preacher

First Homily on Creation

First Homily on the Creation of Man

Homily on Psalm 59

Homily on "I will tear down my barns"

Homily on the Martyr Julitta

Chapter 5: Polemicist

Ep. 9, To Maximus the Philosopher

Ep. 261, To the Sozopolitans (against Apollinaris)

Excerpts from Against Eunomius

Excerpts from On the Holy Spiriit

Chapter 6: Ascetic

Section 1: Letters

Section 2: Excerpts from the Small Asceticon and the Great Asceticon

Chapter 7: Excerpts from To Young Men on How They Would Profit from Greek Literature

Bibliography

Index