The Asketikon of St Basil the Great

The Asketikon of St Basil the Great comprises a new English translation and studies which re-examine the emergence of monasticism in Asia Minor. The Regula Basilii, translated by Rufinus from Basil's Small Asketikon, is closely compared with the Greek text of the longer edition, as a means to tracing the development of ideas. Silvas concludes that the antecedents of the monastic community of the Great Asketikon are best sought not in some kind of sub-orthodox modus vivendi of male and female ascetics living together and increasingly curbed by an emerging neo-Nicene orthodoxy less favourable to women ('homoiousian asceticism'), but in the local domestic ascetic movement in Anatolia as typified in the developments at Annisa under the leadership of Makrina.

• | Author: Anna M. Silvas
• | Publisher: OUP Oxford
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2005
• | Number of Pages: 540 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0199273510
• | ISBN-13: 9780199273515