On Christian Doctrine and Practice: St. Basil the Great 98.99 that women have long had

that women have long had a history of leadership in Christianity

These three texts provide insight into one of the most venerated saints of the Coptic Orthodox Church and into life in the Egyptian monastic communities of the fourth century

whose third chapter contains the Kephalaia Gnostika (or Headings on Spiritual Knowledge)

" ~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

homilies that eventually were appointed for reading in church on specific feast days or saints' days

On Christian Doctrine and Practice: St. Basil the Great 98.99 that women have long had"Sugg. Donation" As a priest and then bishop, Basil of Caesarea devoted sophisticated treatises to the Trinity and to articulating his vision of the Christian life. In his homilies St Basil distilled the best of his moral and theological teachings into forms readily accessible to his flock and now to us. During his lifetime, Basil was recognized as one of the foremost rhetoricians of his day a man supremely skilled in the art of speaking, instructing,