Background
Nicholas Cabasilas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1319.
(The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas is a remarkable ...)
The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas is a remarkable product of Byzantium's last great flowering of theology. At a time when secular humanism was increasingly asserting man's complete autonomy, Cabasilas proclaimed that man's true life lies not in himself, but in Christ. For him, man's redemption in Jesus Christ is not just a matter of history, which can be elucidated simply by scholarly endeavor. It is a saving event in which man is called to participate here and now, in body and spirit as well as intellect, through the sacramental life of the Church. The present translation makes this devotional classic available for the first time in English, while the extensive introduction by Boris Bobrinskoy assesses its place within the history of eastern spirituality.
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Nicholas Cabasilas was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1319.
Nicholas Cabasilas was on intimate terms with the emperor John VI. Cantacuzene, whom he accompanied in his retirement to a monastery. In 1355 he succeeded his uncle Nilus Cabasilas, like himself a determined opponent of the union of the Greek and Latin churches, as archbishop of Thessalonica. In the Hesyfchast controversy he took the side of the monks of Athos, but refused to agree to the theory of the uncreated light. His chief work, in which he lays down the principle that union with Christ is effected by the three great mysteries of baptism, confirmation and the eucharist.
(The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas is a remarkable ...)