Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian : Second Edition / Philip Rousseau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rousseau, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Authority.

Monastic and religious life--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Monastic and religious life.

Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Asceticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 278 p. )

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, first published in 1978, Philip Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century, a reading of Sulpicius and Cassian. Rousseau explores such societal changes as the eventual triumph of the coenobitic movement and its growing effect within the church, not least on the episcopate. He focuses primarily on the development among ascetics of a certain concept of spiritual authority; on the attraction of that concept for a wider audience; and on its enduring formulation within a literary tradition of great influence. For this second edition, Rousseau has supplied a new introduction, with extensive bibliographical references, that charts the ways in which scholarship on early Christian asceticism has developed since his compelling and influential original argument. For this second edition, Rousseau has supplied a new introduction with extensive bibliographical references in which he charts the ways in which scholarship on early Christian asceticism has developed since his compelling and influential original argument.

Contents:

pt. 1. The desert. Discovering the desert fathers

Masters and disciples

The growth of ascetic society

Ascetics in the church

The written word

pt. 2. Western beginnings. Exiles and pilgrims

Ascetic literature

pt. 3. Jerome. Antioch, Constantinople, and Rome

Letters from Bethlehem

Jerome on the priesthood and episcopate

Jerome's Lives

pt. 4. Martin of Tours. A bishop and his biographer

An apostle in Gaul

Martin's audience

pt. 5. Cassian. An exile in reverse

Hermits or coenobites?

Adapting Egypt to the West

Authority

Monks and the world

Cassian the writer

Appendices.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-xxxvi) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268091736

0268091730

OCLC:

794700552