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      John Cassian

      Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up…

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      On the Devil - Conferences With a Desert Father

      John Cassian

      The present book is an interview with Abba Serenus, a Desert Father, about the Devil, the nature this enemy and how he can attack our spirits and influence our thoughts.

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      John Cassian

      Owen Chadwick

      John Cassian is a study of the fifth-century monk who was one of the founders of western monasticism. Christian monasticism flowered in Egypt during the fourth century. Cassias spent several…

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      Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up…

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      John Cassian

      Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up…

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      John Cassian

      Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up…

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      John Cassian: Conferences

      John Cassian (c. 365-c. 435) journeyed to the West to found monasteries in Marseilles and the region of Provence. Conferences is his masterpiece, a study of the Egyptian ideal of…

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      John Cassian

      For nearly 2,000 years, Christian mystics, martyrs, and sages have documented their search for the divine. Their writings have bestowed boundless wisdom upon subsequent generations. But they have also burdened…

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      * John Cassian: The Conferences

      Since its inception in 1947, the Ancient Christian Writers series has become one of the world’s premier patristic collections. Founded by the renowned scholars Johannes Quasten and Joseph Plumpe at…

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      * John Cassian: The Institutes

      The first written work of John Cassian in which he shares the wisdom of Egyptian monasticism, especially rules of monastic life and lessons on battling the eight principal vices.

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      On The Incarnation of Christ: Against the Heretic Nestorius

      John Cassian

      St John Cassian’s little treatise on the Incarnation is of a very different character his better-known works of spirituality, the Institutes and the Collations. Cassian wrote the De Incarnatione in…

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      John Cassian

      The Conferences of St John Cassian is a classic of Christian spiritual wisdom for monasticism and is of great benefit for the everyday lay reader. This book, as well as…

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      Conferences of John Cassian, (conferences I-XXIV, Except for XII and XXII)

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      An important historic work by Saint John Cassian, also known as John the Ascetic, or John Cassian the Roman, a Christian theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches…

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      John Cassian

      After travelling to Egypt from Rome during the fourth century, known as the golden age of Christian Monasticism in the east, St John Cassian wrote two books for the benefit…

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      John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity

      Joshua Daniel Schachterle

      This study of Cassian's writings is supplemented with Michel Foucault's analysis of the creation of subjects to examine Cassian's formation of a specifically Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his…

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      John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity

      Joshua Daniel Schachterle

      This study of Cassian's writings is supplemented with Michel Foucault's analysis of the creation of subjects to examine Cassian's formation of a specifically Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his…

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      Tradition and Theology in St John Cassian

      A.M.C. Casiday

      John Cassian brought the teachings of the Egyptian desert fathers to the Latin West. This work offers an account of his work, restoring the stories he tells to a position…

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      John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture

      Steven D. Driver

      First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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      John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture

      Steven D. Driver

      This volume examines the method of meditative reading encouraged by John Cassian (c. 360-435) in his ascetic writings, the bulk of which are fictive dialogues that purportedly record the instruction…

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      A Newly Discovered Greek Father: Cassian the Sabaite eclipsed by John Cassian of Marseilles

      Panayiotis Tzamalikos

      A critical edition of texts of Codex 573 (ninth century, Monastery of Metamorphosis, Meteora, Greece), which are published along with the monograph identifying The Real Cassian, in the same series…

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      Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great

      Thomas L. Humphries, Jr. (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Theology, and Religion, Saint Leo University (Florida, USA))

      A study of how Christians understood the Holy Spirit in the 5th and 6th centuries. Humphries argues that we can see various schools of thought within Christianity in this period…

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      Sites of the Ascetic Self: John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation

      Niki Kasumi Clements

      Reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of fifth-century ascetic, John Cassian (ca. 360 - ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and…

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      Collations: Conversations with the Desert Fathers

      John Cassian

      The Twenty-Four Conferences or Collations of St John Cassian, written in the early fifth century, were to have a tremendous impact in the West on the spirituality of monastics and…

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      Tertullian, Origen, and Cassian on Prayer: Essential Ancient Christian Writings

      Quintus Tertullian,Origen Adamantius,John Cassian

      Quintus Tertullian (c. 160-c. 220) is distinguished by being the first major Christian thinker to write in the Latin language. According to Eusebius, he was raised in Carthage, the son…

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      Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series, Volume XI Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian

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      Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series, Volume XI Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian

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      Cassian the Monk

      Columba Andrew Stewart (Associate Professor of Theology, Associate Professor of Theology, St John's University, Minnesota)

      This book is a study of the life, monastic writings and spiritual theology of John Cassian (c.365-430). Cassian’s writings were the bridge between eastern monasticism and the developing Latin monasticism…

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      Columba Andrew Stewart (Associate Professor of Theology, Associate Professor of Theology, St John's University, Minnesota)

      This book is a study of the life, monastic writings and spiritual theology of John Cassian (c.365-430). Cassian’s writings were the bridge between eastern monasticism and the developing Latin monasticism…

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