Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Basil’s life and works
* Features the major works of Basil in English translation
* Concise introduction to the texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables
* The translators’ original footnotes
* Includes the Greek text of Basil’s ‘Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature’
* Features two bonus biographies — discover Basil’s ancient world
CONTENTS:
The Translations
Brief Introduction to Basil of Caesarea
On the Holy Spirit [tr. Blomfield Jackson]
Hexaemeron [tr. Blomfield Jackson]
Letters [tr. Blomfield Jackson]
Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature [tr. Frederick Morgan Padelford]
Exhortation to Baptism [tr. Francis Patrick Kenrick]
The Greek Text
Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature
The Biographies
Sketch of the Life and Works of Saint Basil (1885) by Blomfield Jackson
St. Basil the Great (1913) by Joseph McSorley
