Conferences / John Cassian ; translation and preface by Colm Luibheid ; introduction by Owen Chadwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435.

Contributor:

Luibhéid, Colm.

Pichery, E. (Eugène), 1883-1980.

Series:

Classics of Western spirituality

Classics of Western spirituality.

Standardized Title:

Collationes patrum XXIV. English. Selections

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Monastic and religious life--Early works to 1800.

Monastic and religious life.

Physical Description:

xv, 208 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Paulist Press, [1985]

Summary:

"...clearly a must for all libraries...and for all readers interested in spirituality."Religious Studies ReviewJohn Cassian: Conferences translation and preface by Colm Luibheidintroduction 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 lorewhich 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 offeredmen 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 inBethlehem 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."

Contents:

Conference one: The goal or objective of the monk

Conference two: On discernment

Conference three: The three renunciations

Conference nine: On prayer

Conference ten: On prayer

Conference eleven: On perfection

Conference fourteen: On spiritual knowledge

Conference fifteen: The gifts of God

Conference eighteen: The three kinds of monk.

Notes:

"Translation is based on the text prepared for Sources chrétiennes by Dom E. Pichery"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

080912694X

0809103613

OCLC:

12417729