Great And Lesser Rules Of Basil

Definition

Nearly every figure profiled withdraws to a monastery or hermitage — Maximus at Chrysopolis, John of Damascus at Saint Sabbas, Jerome at Bethlehem, Basil in Pontus, Gregory of Nyssa at Iris — from which theological writing emerges.

Episodes

• 030 — History of the Christian Church — Topic 10

Related Concepts

• Monasticism And Ascetic Labor As The Context Of Theology

Biblical References

• Romans 13:13 — *Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy. *