The Fathers Speak: St Basil the Great, St Gregory of Nazianzus, St Gregory of Nyssa
Selected letters and life-records translated from the Greek and introduced by Georges A. Barrois with a Foreword by John Meyendorff
“I am not writing a book about the ‘Three Hierarchs,’ Saint Basil, Saint Gegory of Nazianzus, and Saint Gregory of Nyssa. I prefer to let them speak for themselves in the letters which they wrote to each other or to some of their contemporaries, and which let us enter into their intimacy. My task has been to choose those pieces that best reveal the secret of their personality.” —“Introduction”
CONTENTS
Foreword Introduction 1 The Solitude in Pontus 2 Biographicals 3 The Quest for Wisdom 4 Monastic Ideal 5 Priests and Hierarchs: Their Calling 6 Priests and Hierarchs: Shepherds of the Sheep 7 Priests and Hierarchs: Upholders of Orthodoxy 8 Priests and Hierarchs: The Arian Persecution 9 Hierarchs’ Frustrations 10 Glimpses of Daily Life 11 Ailments and Deaths Epilogue Table of Excerpts Map of Central Anatolia
Item Number: BKV368 Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1986 Format: softcover Number of Pages: 225 Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.5 cm × 13.9 cm × 1.6 cm ISBN: 0‒88141‒037‒3
