The Fathers Speak: St Basil the Great, St Gregory of Nazianzus, St Gregory of Nyssa

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

   
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