Basil as exemplar for reading pagan texts: The spirit, the church, and a sacramental ontology

Heather W Peterson
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In To Young Men, Basil of Caesarea asserted that pagan literature could be read discerningly for the pursuit of virtue. As a professor of English, I recognize Basil as an exemplar pedagogue in my own insistence that Christian students read secular texts. Not a scholar of Greek, I rely on patristic scholarship to understand Basil’s assumptions giving him confidence in students’ discernment. Pagan literature can be read discerningly because reading and faith are collective ventures, seeking virtue is practiced best in dependence on the Holy Spirit, and truth is unified based on a Platonist-Christian synthesis—a sacramental ontology.
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巴西尔作为阅读异教徒文本的典范:精神、教会和圣礼本体论
凯撒利亚的巴兹尔在《致年轻人》一书中断言,为了追求美德,异教文学可以被敏锐地解读。作为一名英语教授,我认为巴兹尔是我自己坚持让基督徒学生阅读世俗文本的典范。我不是一个希腊学者,我依靠爱国主义的学术来理解巴兹尔的假设,这让他对学生的洞察力充满信心。异教徒文学之所以能被解读,是因为阅读和信仰是集体的冒险,寻求美德的最佳实践依赖于圣灵,而真理是基于柏拉图主义-基督教的综合——圣礼本体论——而统一的。
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