The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea: A Synthesis of Greek Thought and Biblical Truth
The Trinitarian Theology of Basil of Caesarea: A Synthesis of Greek Thought and Biblical Truth
by Stephen M. Hildebrand
Catholic University of America Press, 2007 Cloth: 978-0-8132-1473-3 | Paper: 978-0-8132-1717-8 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-1610-2 Library of Congress Classification BR65.B36H55 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 230.14092
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book explores Basil's Trinitarian thought as the meeting place of the worlds within which he lived, that of ancient Greek culture and learning, and that of Christian faith lived in the liturgy and expressed in the Scripture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Chronological Table
Introduction???. ??...?...???????????????????..???1
Chapter 1: The Life of Basil ????????.??????????????....23
Chapter 2: Greek Words and Trinitarian Truth: On the Threshold of ?Orthodoxy?.??37
Chapter 3: Greek Words and Trinitarian Truth: Towards a Nicene Formula????. 103
Chapter 4: Basil and the Scriptures??????????????????..??137
Chapter 5: Greek Paideia and Scriptural Exegesis in Basil?s Trinitarian Theology:
the Father and the Son ?.????..???????????????..?201
Chapter 6: Greek Paideia and Scriptural Exegesis in Basil?s Trinitarian Theology:
the Holy Spirit?.???????????????????????.....231
Conclusion: Linguistic Achievement and Biblical Truth???????????....251
Appendix 1: Studies of Basil?s Works??.????????????..????..255
Appendix 2: The Date of Against Eunomius and its Theological Significance??..?283
Bibliography?????????..????????????????..???305