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St. Nicholas Cabasilas

XIV Century
Born c. 1320/1323, Nicholas Cabasilas was a Byzantine layman whose Commentary on the Divine Liturgy and Life in Christ are a part of a tradition of lay theology in the Eastern church. A student under his maternal uncle, Archbishop Neilos (or Nilus) of Thessalonica, Cabasilas also studied in Constantinople, where he learned rhetoric, astronomy and law in addition to theology. He supported John VI Catacuzenus in the civil war between him and John V Paleologus; Cabasilas also championed hesychasm. Cabasilas was a poet, and his prose works on subjects like usury show an awareness of and concern for social issues. He died in Constantinople after 1391.
Karen Rae Keck

ABOUT:

Wikipedia entry ---About.com

WORKS:
- De vita in Christo libri septem (The Life in Christ). PG 150:493-726.
  
  In this union, Christ is all-sufficient. Copyrighted deCatanzaro translation., 1974 --- Touchstone
  The Old and the New Adam. Copyrighted translation. --- Elpenor
  
  The Beauty and the Truth of Christ by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) Section 5 discusses Cabasilas' The Life in Christ. ---Eternal Word Network
- Oratio contra feneratores (Against Usurers ). PG 150:727-50.
- Vita S. Theodoræ (Life of St. Theodora ). PG 150:753-72.
- In Gregoræ deliramenta (On the Nonsense of Gregoras ). PG 150:355-62. Only a fragment of the text is in Migne; also, the text is now attributed to Nilus Cabasilas.
- De dissidio ecclesiarum lib. 1 (Illegal Acts of Officials Against Things Sacred ). PG 149:683-700. Formerly attributed to Nilus Cabasilas and now believed to be the work of Nicholas Cabasilas.

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