The writings of St. Basil the Great, a 4th-century Church Father, stemmed from his practical concerns as a monk, pastor, and church leader. His notable works include the Longer Rules and Shorter Rules for monasteries; the Hexaëmeron (“Six Days”), nine Lenten sermons on the days of the Creation; Against Eunomius, which defends the deity of the Son against an extreme Arian thinker (Arianism was a 4th-century heresy that rejected the doctrine of the Trinity); and On the Holy Spirit, which expounds the deity of the Holy Spirit. His letters were also influential, and his Canonical Epistles became part of canon law of Eastern Orthodoxy.
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