The Nicene Faith


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N this sequel to The Way to Nicaea, Fr John Behr turns his attention to the fourth century, the era in which Christian theology was formulated as the Nicene faith, the common heritage of most Christians to this day. Engaging the best of modern scholarship, Behr provides a series of orignal, comprehensive, and insightful sketches of theology of the key protaganists of the Nicene faith, presenting a powerful vision of Christian theology, centered upon Christ and his Passion.




Basil of Caesarea's Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names


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Basil of Caesarea’s debate with Eunomius of Cyzicus in the early 360s marks a turning point in the fourth-century Trinitarian controversies. It shifted focus to methodological and epistemological disputes underlying theological differences. This monograph explores one of these fundamental points of contention: the proper theory of names. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Eunomius’s theory as a corrective to previous approaches, contesting the widespread assumption that it is indebted to Platonist sources and showing that it was developed by drawing upon proximate Christian sources. While Eunomius held that names uniquely predicated of God communicated the divine essence, in response Basil developed a “notionalist” theory wherein all names signify primarily notions and secondarily properties, not essence.




The Awakening


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If one is looking for answers to the meaning of life and how to make a happier, richer existence—e.g., relationships, finances, health—then Neville’s teaching from personal experience, testimonies from students, and his amazing visions paralleling and explaining the mysteries of the Old and New Testament will answer those questions. Learn his techniques, unleash your power to create, believe in your imaginal acts, and no power in this world can stop the desired results from appearing in your world. It’s the only creative power, one that everyone is operating moment to moment. Learning how to direct it deliberately is essential to producing loving, positive changes in one’s life. These 1963 lectures also begin a nine-year odyssey of discovering the deepest meanings of six visions of the End that had unfolded in Neville (1959–1963). The visions are the signs that this long journey as limited man, the terrible opacity and contraction, is over, that the purpose of human life has been completed—man has endured and overcome six thousand years of amnesia plus the fires of experience and has emerged victorious. He’s been transformed by his inner being (I AM, God) back into the divinity he truly is . . . and always was.




The Complete Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 Collection [14 Volumes]


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THE COMPLETE NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHURCH FATHERS SERIES 2 COLLECTION [14 VOLUMES] THE CHURCH FATHERS — The Greatest Christian Classics! — Complete Edition: 14 Volumes — Includes an Active Index, 14 Tables of Contents for each Volume to all Books & Chapters and Layered NCX Navigation — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore ALSO AVAILABLE IN A COMPLETE 3 SERIES EDITION. Publisher: Large E-Book. THE COMPLETE NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHURCH FATHERS SERIES 2 COLLECTION [14 VOLUMES] NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS: SERIES 2 NPNF2–01. Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine NPNF2–02. Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories NPNF2–03. Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius, & Rufinus: Historical Writings NPNF2–04. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters NPNF2–05. Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises, Etc NPNF2–06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome NPNF2–07. Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen NPNF2–08. Basil: Letters and Select Works NPNF2–09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus NPNF2–10. Ambrose: Selected Works and Letters NPNF2–11. Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian NPNF2–12. Leo the Great, Gregory the Great NPNF2–13. Gregory the Great (II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat NPNF2–14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING




Hilary of Poitiers on the Trinity


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Hilary of Poitiers is widely held to have combined his two separate theological works, De Fide and Adversus Arianos, to create his monumental De Trinitate. Carl L. Beckwith examines why - and when - this revision occurred, situating the text in its historical and theological context as part of a broader re-mapping of fourth-century Trinitarian debates.




On the Trinity


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The Sacred Writings of Saint Hilary of Poitiers


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"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. This volume is accurately annotated, including * an extensive biography of the author and his life Contents: Introduction Chapter I.—The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers. Chapter II.—The Theology of St. Hilary of Pottiers. Introduction to the Treatise de Synodis On the Councils, or the Faith of the Easterns On the Trinity Introduction to the Homilies on Psalms I., LIII., CXXX Homilies on the Psalms Psalm I Psalm LIII. (LIV.). Psalm CXXX. (CXXXI.).




Eastern Christianity in Its Texts


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Surveying theological literature produced in the Christian East from the first through the 20th century, Eastern Christianity in its Texts explores different theological themes (analytical and mystical), genres (epistles, treatises, and poetry), and milieux (Greek, Armenian, Western and Eastern Syriac, Russian and Romanian). The book illustrates the evolution of the Orthodox thought, how it influenced and was influenced by intellectual, social, and political environments. It demonstrates a theology in context, and yet displays consistency in the traditions spread through different epochs and countries. The book is divided in five parts, each standing for an epoch with distinct features: formation of the Christian identity in the era before Constantine, golden age of theology in the period of Late Antiquity, the pinnacle of erudism and mysticism in the eastern Middle Ages, wrestling with the Modernity imported from the West in the 18th-19th centuries, and finally theological polyphony in the 20th century.







Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret


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The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret, which begins with the rise of Arianism and closes with the death of Theodore in 429 (despite being completed in 449-450) is very different in style from those of Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen. It contains many sources otherwise lost, specially letters on the Arian controversy; however, the book is extremely partisan, the heretics being consistently blackened and described as afflicted with the 'Arian plague'. The narrative is more compressed than in the other historians, and Theodoret often strings documents together, with only brief comments between. Original material of Antiochian information appears chiefly in the latter books. Theodoret's sources are in dispute. According to Valesius these were mainly Socrates and Sozomen; Albert Guldenpenning's thorough research placed Rufinus first, and next to him, Eusebius of Caesarea, Athanasius, Sozomen, Sabinus, Philostorgius, Gregory Nazianzen, and, least of all, Socrates. N. Glubokovskij counts Eusebius, Rufinus, Philostorgius, and, perhaps, Sabinus.