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Basil of Caesarea
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Basil of Caesarea, Philip Rousseau's 1994 biography from University of California Press, is a scholarly critical biography of the fourth century church father and bishop, drawing on Basil's own extensive surviving correspondence and writings. Rousseau is an established patristics scholar and the biography's authority rests on that close primary source work within the wider field of late antique Christian studies. Its limit is that, like any single biography, it represents one scholar's synthesis and interpretation of a figure whose life admits of more than one reading. Cite it as a standard scholarly biography; a specific contested point about Basil's career may need to be checked against other specialist studies.
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Philip Rousseau's Basil of Caesarea, published by University of California Press in 1994, the top tier reflecting a scholarly critical biography by an established patristics scholar drawing on Basil's own extensive surviving correspondence and writings. Its limit is that, like any single biography, it represents one scholar's synthesis and interpretation; a specific contested point about Basil's career may need to be checked against other specialist studies. NotesScholarly biography of Basil of Caesarea, University of California Press, 1994.
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AuthorPhilip Rousseau
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication Year1994
Source Typeacademic biography
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