The Fathers Speak: St Basil the Great, St Gregory of Nazianzus, St Gregory of Nyssa
By Georges Barrois.
Description
As we, Christians of the twenty first century, study the Fathers of the Church, their writings (often in an unreadable English produced by clumsy translators) appear to us as foreboding, verbose, and somewhat closed within a world where theological contemplation replaces everyday reality. The Greek Fathers in particular have this reputation among students because they wrote relatively little about themselves, about the details of their own lives and the circumstances of daily life. Here for the first time is an anthology of texts gathered almost exclusively from the personal correspondence ...
ISBN(s)
0881410373, 9780881410372
