Cassian the Monk

Zusatztext Though eight years have elapsed since its publication, this remains an important book Informationen zum Autor Columba Stewart is a Benedictine monk of Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and Associate Professor of Theology at Saint John's University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This 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 of Southern Gaul, and exerted a major influence on the Rule of Benedict and the theology of Gregory the Great.

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• Authors: Columba Stewart, Columba Andrew Stewart, Columba Andrew (Associate Professor of Th Stewart, Columba Andrew (Associate Professor of Theology Stewart, Stewart Columba Andrew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.1999
• EAN: 9780195134841
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513484-1
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology; Oxford Studies in Historical T; Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Monasticism, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, The Early Church, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism