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Letters to the spiritual life. St. Basil the Great "Take my word"

Collection "Take my word," released in a series of "Letters on Spiritual Life" contains epistolary heritage of St. Basil the Great (329-379), Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, the famous saint of the universal Church and the Master. Correspondence covers the whole period of his ministry when he was a priest and then a bishop in Cappadocia department.

Selected letters included in the collection, addressed the congregation, religious and great bishops of the time: CBT. Amphilochius of Iconium, Peter of Alexandria, Pope Damasus, svt. Epiphanius, St.. Ambrose and many drugim.V book are also letters "K Askholiyu, bishop of Thessaly" (communion of faith), "To Sorani" (of the church prayer) and others. Of particular note is the message of the saint, which meant his theological depth and accuracy of the solutions studied problems later entered the collection of ecclesiastical canons.

The book will be of interest to all students of the history of theological thought, works of the Holy Fathers.