The more I reflect on it the more convinced I am that the parable of the prodigal son lays out a great deal more than just a narrative (common to humans) of wandering from home, coming to ourselves, and returning, but that it shows us something essential to the narrative structure of our souls and …
III. Basil and the Hexaemeron Now let us turn to S. Basil and his Hexaemeron. The Hexaemeron is the title of Basil’s nine Lenten sermons on the first chapter of Genesis. Although the evidence suggests that Basil delivered these sermons extemporaneously to working men and women, the ancients regarded this as his greatest work, and …
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