By Columba Stewart
This e-book is a examine of the existence, monastic writings, and non secular theology of John Cassian (c., 360-435). His Institutes and Conferences are a impressive synthesis of previous monastic traditions, particularly these of fourth-century Egypt, proficient all through by means of Cassian's knowledge of the actual wishes of the Latin monastic move he used to be aiding to form. occasionally portrayed as easily an suggest of the delicate religious theology of Evagrius of Ponticus (360-435), Cassian was once really a theologian of prepared perception, realism, and creativity. His educating on sexuality is exclusive in early monastic literature in either its breadth and its intensity, and his integration of biblical interpretation with the methods of prayer and instructing on ecstatic prayer are of basic value for the western monastic culture. the one Latin author integrated within the vintage Greek collections of monastic sayings, Cassian used to be the most important non secular impression on either the Rule of the Master and the Rule of Benedict, in addition to the resource for Gregory the Great's educating on capital sins and compunction.
Columba Stewart's e-book is the 1st significant research of Cassian to be released in 20 years. It starts off through constructing Cassian's credibility as a instructor at the foundation of his personal event as a monk and his familiarity with the basic literary resources. Stewart then turns to Cassian's non secular theology, paying specific recognition to Cassian's view of the monastic trip in eschatological point of view, his educating on continence and chastity, the Christological foundation of biblical interpretation and prayer, his approach to unceasing prayer, and his integration of ecstatic adventure with an Evagrian theology of prayer.
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