Conferences
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Conferences
（The classics of Western spirituality）
Paulist Press, c1985
- : pbk
- : hard
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Collationes patrum XXIV
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Note
"Translation is based on the text prepared for Sources chrétiennes by Dom E. Pichery"--P. ix
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- The goal or objective of the monk
- On discernment
- The three renunciations
- On prayer
- On prayer
- On perfection
- On spiritual knowledge
- The gifts of God
- The three kinds of monk
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"...clearly a must for all libraries...and for all readers interested in spirituality."
Religious Studies Review
John Cassian: Conferences
translation and preface by Colm Luibheid
introduction by Owen Chadwick
"I f you wish to achieve true knowledge of scripture you must hurry to achieve unshakable humility of heart. This is what will lead you not to the knowledge that puffs a man up but to the lore
which illumines through the achievement of love."
John Cassian (c. 365-c. 435)
At the turn of the sixth century the Mediterranean world was witnessing the decline of Roman rule that had formed the bedrock of its civil order. During the chaos of those years, there arose in the deserts of Egypt and Syria monastic movements that offered
men and women a radical God-centered alternative to the present society. Among the most eloquent interpreters of this new movement to western Europe was John Cassian (c. 365-c.435). Drawing on his own early experience as a monk in
Bethlehem and Egypt, he journeyed to the West to found monasteries in Marseilles and the region of Provence.
Included in this volume is Cassian's masterpiece, the Conferences, which is a study of the Egyptian ideal of the monk.
The new translation by Colm Luibheid is coupled with an insightful introduction by the distinguished Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Cambridge University, Owen Chadwick, who writes of Cassian's achievement: "Like the Rule of St. Benedict, his work was a protection against excess and a constant recall to that primitive simplicity where eastern spirituality met western."
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