The Holy Spirit

Continuing their welcome "Popular Patristic" series, St. Vladimir's Seminary Press has just brought out Stephen M. Hildebrand, trans., On the Holy Spirit: St. Basil the Great (SVS Press, 2011), 128pp.


As the publisher says:

This volume presents a new translation of St Basil s On the Holy Spirit, a classic expression of the Church's faith in the Spirit, and a lasting testimony to the author's Christian erudition. In the words of St Gregory the Theologian, St Basil's treatise was written by a pen borrowed from the Spirit's store.

This work sets forth the distinction of the divine Persons, and their perpetual communion and conjunction. It talks also about the nature of theological language, and the theological significance of the Church s tradition of worship and proclamation. Although the book was written for St Basil's fourth-century contemporaries, its message is valid for all ages.

This series of SVS Press has brought you many welcome volumes over the years, including

• On The Human Condition: St Basil the Great 
• Harp of Glory: An African Akathist 
• On the Incarnation: De Incarnatione Verbi Dei  
• The Book of Pastoral Rule: St. Gregory the Great 
• On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ: Selected Writings from St. Maximus the Confessor 
•  On the Apostolic Tradition 
• Tertullian, Cyprian, And Origen On The Lord's Prayer 
• Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius Of Egypt, And Macarius Of Alexandria: Coptic Texts Relating To The Lausiac History Of Palladius 
•  On God and Man: The Theological Poetry of St. Gregory of Nazianzus
• On the Church: Select Treatises 
• St. Macarius The Spirit Bearer: Coptic Texts Relating To Saint Macarius The Great 
• On Social Justice: St. Basil the Great  
• Three Treatises on the Divine Images