No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky by Basil Davidson

Here he uses technical grammatical categories to support his strict view of the exegete's task, which he sees as limited only to the words explicitly used in scripture. While in his arguments against 'creature' he draws upon Eusebius of Caesarea, against 'something begotten' and 'thing made' Basil argues that these names contravene scriptural usage and cannot even be inferred from passages in scripture because of the exacting character of the scriptural text, thereby opposing a long tradition of doing precisely this. provided, revealing that Basil's approach is both rooted in the tradition and innovative. In order to contextualize Basil's arguments, a survey of earlier fourth-century usage and opinions about Eunomius's preferred names is. Featuring a preface by Cape Verde's first president, Aristides Pereira, and a foreword by Cabral himself, No Fist is Big Enough to Hide the Sky remains an invaluable resource for the study both of the region and of African liberation struggles as a whole.This paper examines Basil of Caesarea's arguments against the traditional names for the Son preferred by his opponent Eunomius, 'something begotten' (γεννημα), 'thing made' (ποιημα), and 'creature' (κτιομα), and in favor of his preferred name, 'Son' (υιος). The book also provides one of the earliest accounts of the assassination of the PAIGC's founder, Amilcar Cabral, and documents the movement's remarkable success in recovering from the death of its leader and in eventually attaining independence. Though perhaps less well known than the struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an African independence movement triumphing against overwhelming odds.īasil Davidson, a leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed many of these events first hand, draws on his own extensive experience in the country as well as the PAIGC archives to provide a detailed and rigorous analysis of the conflict. No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky by Basil Davidson