St Basil the Great

A biographical study by Richard Travers Smith offers an account of personal traits, life and work of Basil of Caesarea, the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor. The book contains chapters on Early Life Athens; Caesarea and Annesi, Ascetic Life; Election to the Archbishopric; Personal Traits; Picture of the Times; Theology: Doctrine of the Son, Spirit; Work of Salvation; Controversies of the Church; Questions of the Day; Christian Life; Lover of Nature; Preacher; Eloquence; Classi