ST. BASIL THE GREAT (330–79): Address to Young Men on the Reading of Greek Literature

ST. BASIL THE GREAT (330–79): Address to Young Men on the Reading of Greek Literature. Briel, D. J. In Renewing the Mind, pages 107–119. Catholic University of America Press, 2015.

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Is pagan wisdom still wisdom? In this remarkable letter, St. Basil outlines a Christian philosophy of culture. He names principles by which we may evaluate the “spoils of the Egyptians.” By the fourth century A.D., Christians had received from the Greeks and Romans an established canon of authors whose works defined the bulk of the liberal arts curriculum. Classical authors (Homer, Virgil, and Cicero) can still be read. But the curriculum is relativized. Instead of serving as ends in themselves, or as the means to social promotion, the old books should be read as primers for the New Testament, as

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