On Fasting and Feasts, PPS50

St Basil the Great, Mark DelCogliano, Susan R. Holman

ISBN 10: 0881414808 / ISBN 13: 9780881414806

Published by St Vladimirs Seminary Pr December 2013, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Fasting and Feasts, PPS50
• Publisher: St Vladimirs Seminary Pr December 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881414808
• ISBN 13: 9780881414806
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Patristics/Primary Sources

About this title

Synopsis

Saint Basil of Caesarea (c. 329-378/9 CE) was a monk, bishop, preacher, theologian, and social activist who had very down-to-earth views about eating, drinking, fasting, and feasts in honor of local martyrs. In this new collection of sermon translations—most offered here in English for the first time— Basil addresses such issues as drunkenness, hesitations over baptism, community benefits of fasting, how to be thankful when facing loss and disaster, and the mystery of the incarnation.

About the Author

Dr Mark DelCogliano teaches at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. In addition to his scholarship on the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies, he has published numerous translations of patristic works, including eleven of Basil’s Moral Homilies in On Christian Doctrine and Practice (PPS 47).

Dr Susan R. Holman is author of over thirty publications, including four books, in the areas of patristic studies, the history of poverty, and medicine. She is Senior Writer at the Harvard Global Health Institute.