On the Human Condition (Biblia.com)

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This informative and enjoyable volume serves as a valuable introduction to major themes in Greek Patristic anthropology—the image of God in the human form, the Fall of humanity, and the cause of evil—and brings together the main writings of St Basil the Great, fourth-century archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, on these subjects. St. Basil deftly addresses the questions posed by the human...

it says, “Let a firmament come to be” [Gen 1:6]. The great heaven, having been stretched out above us, came to be by a word of God. Stars and sun and moon, and all things which we contemplate with the eye and which we behold above as great, have being by a word. Sea and land and what is set in order in them, all kinds of species of animals, diverse varieties of plants, all these have come to be by a word. But what about the human being? It was not said, “Let a human come to be,” as, “Let a firmament

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