The Asketikon of St Basil the Great

By Anna M. Silvas

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199273510
• ISBN13: 9780199273515
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"