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Cassian the Monk (Hardcover)
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Cassian the Monk (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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This book is a study of the life, monastic writings, and spiritual
theology of John Cassian (c., 360-435). His Institutes and
Conferences are a remarkable synthesis of earlier monastic
traditions, especially those of fourth-century Egypt, informed
throughout by Cassian's awareness of the particular needs of the
Latin monastic movement he was helping to shape. Sometimes
portrayed as simply an advocate of the sophisticated spiritual
theology of Evagrius of Ponticus (360-435), Cassian was actually a
theologian of keen insight, realism, and creativity. His teaching
on sexuality is unique in early monastic literature in both its
breadth and its depth, and his integration of biblical
interpretation with the ways of prayer and teaching on ecstatic
prayer are of fundamental importance for the western monastic
tradition. The only Latin writer included in the classic Greek
collections of monastic sayings, Cassian was the major spiritual
influence on both the Rule of the Master and the Rule of Benedict,
as well as the source for Gregory the Great's teaching on capital
sins and compunction.
Columba Stewart's book is the first major study of Cassian to be
published in twenty years. It begins by establishing Cassian's
credibility as a teacher on the basis of his own experience as a
monk and his familiarity with the fundamental literary sources.
Stewart then turns to Cassian's spiritual theology, paying
particular attention to Cassian's view of the monastic journey in
eschatological perspective, his teaching on continence and
chastity, the Christological basis of biblical interpretation and
prayer, his method of unceasing prayer, and his integration of
ecstatic experience with an Evagrian theology of prayer.
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