The Cappadocians"After the Emperor Constantine made the Church's faith legal in 313, there was a tremendous flowering of Christian culture and a creative and turbulent encounter between theChristian community and the classical heritage of late antiquity. In the final third of the fourth century the three great Cappadocian Fathers were at the centre of this exciting encounter. .... " [from back cover] |
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... sermons , delivered while still a priest , touch on the subject of helping the poor . Sermon 6 on the text from Luke 12:18 ( ' I will destroy my barns and build greater ones ' ) is largely concerned with castigating the sin of avarice ...
... sermons , delivered while still a priest , touch on the subject of helping the poor . Sermon 6 on the text from Luke 12:18 ( ' I will destroy my barns and build greater ones ' ) is largely concerned with castigating the sin of avarice ...
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... sermons ; it is worth remarking that the Suda , a tenth - century literary encyclopedia containing much valuable information about Greek literature , tells us that Gregory's style owed much to the influence of a second- century Greek ...
... sermons ; it is worth remarking that the Suda , a tenth - century literary encyclopedia containing much valuable information about Greek literature , tells us that Gregory's style owed much to the influence of a second- century Greek ...
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... sermon , as it was one of the nine of Gregory's sermons translated into Latin by Rufinus ( c . 345-410 ) towards the end of the century . " In 372 Basil had Gregory made Bishop of Sasima , a small town in that part of the Roman province ...
... sermon , as it was one of the nine of Gregory's sermons translated into Latin by Rufinus ( c . 345-410 ) towards the end of the century . " In 372 Basil had Gregory made Bishop of Sasima , a small town in that part of the Roman province ...
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