Basil & the Arrogant Theologian

Basil & the Arrogant Theologian

by Dr Anna Silvas My most honoured father among the Fathers, St Basil of Caesarea, was not surnamed ‘the Great’ for nothing. Not in one field only, but in a whole range of fields he proved to be an outstanding Father of the Church in the later part of the fourth...

Pope Benedict XVI on Love and St Gregory of Nyssa on Eros

Pope Benedict XVI on Love and St Gregory of Nyssa on Eros

Let me put a question that I have put to others with interesting results: What would you say is the central Christian affirmation, the most definitive confession of the Christian Faith? The central Christian revelation, I suggest, is that the divine absolute is both...