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The Church Fathers · c. 378
The Hexaemeron
Basil the Great · c. 330–379
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What it is
Nine sermons on the six days of creation, preached morning and evening to a working congregation, refusing allegory and dwelling instead on the natural world as it actually is.
Why it lasted
The most influential patristic treatment of creation, imitated by Ambrose and read for a thousand years as natural science as well as theology.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
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