Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.8: St. Basil: Letters and Select Works (Catholic Edition)
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Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume VIII: St. Basil: Letters and Select Works. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series VIII Basil of Caesarea On the Holy Spirit The Hexaemeron Letters
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“Faith and baptism are two kindred and inseparable ways of salvation: faith is perfected through baptism, baptism is established through faith, and both are completed by the same names. For as we believe in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, so are we also baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: first comes the confession, introducing us to salvation, and baptism follows, setting the seal upon our assent.” (Page 18)
“The Lord has delivered to us as a necessary and saving doctrine that the Holy Spirit is to be ranked with the Father” (Page 17)
“For the Father loveth the Son and sheweth him all things” (Page 6)
“You will finally discover that the world was not conceived by chance and without reason, but for an useful end and for the great advantage of all beings, since it is really the school where reasonable souls exercise themselves, the training ground where they learn to know God; since by the sight of visible and sensible things the mind is led, as by a hand, to the contemplation of invisible things.” (Page 55)
“Count, if you must; but you must not by counting do damage to the faith. Either let the ineffable be honoured by silence; or let holy things be counted consistently with true religion. There is one God and Father, one Only-begotten, and one Holy Ghost. We proclaim each of the hypostases singly; and, when count we must, we do not let an ignorant arithmetic carry us away to the idea of a plurality of Gods.” (Page 28)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.8: St. Basil: Letters and Select Works (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Basil of Caesarea
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 8
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1895
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.122
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:48Z