Category: Saint Basil the Great

St. Basil the Great, as Archbishop, succeeded in snatching from the belly of the devil a young man who had voluntarily surrendered himself to him. In Caesarea, a Christian servant fell in love with the only daughter of his wealthy master, named Proterius, and wished to marry her. However, neither the girl nor her parents…

   Νote:  The following text is a free theological rendering of PG 31:653–676, St. Basil the Great’s On the Judgment of God. It seeks to convey the theological spirit and moral urgency of St. Basil’s thought, rather than provide a strict literal translation. Βriefly. When St. Basil entered into the “inner realities” of the Church and…

Seeing the many trials that occur both in the world and in the Church, Saint Basil the Great composed a homily addressing a central theological question: “That God Is Not the Cause of Evils” (where “evils” refers to afflictions and human suffering, not to sin). He describes evil as “a subject much debated” (PG 31:33).…