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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 The Catholic University of America, the series has grown to fifty-seven volumes over fifty years. Translations of the works of Augustine, Basil, Theodoret, Palladius, Chrysostom, Tertullian and, most recently, Justin Martyr are found amongst the thirty-six authors whose writings comprise the series. Widely recognized as the authoritative American patristic project, the Ancient Christian Writers series launches its second fifty years with the long-anticipated publication of John Cassian's The Conferences, translated and presented by Boniface Ramsey, O.P.
The first complete translation into English of The Conferences, Ramsey's rendering of Cassian is the only extensively annotated edition since the seventeenth century. Included are introductory essays, notes and a useful series of indexes. Popular for centuries in both the East and West, this work will now be available to a wider audience of scholars, students and spiritual seekers.
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In this first of three prefaces Cassian compares The Institutes and the first ten books of The Conferences (if we are to credit 2 praef. 2 it would appear that he had not yet planned on writing the remaining fourteen; but cf. p. 397), speaking of the former as touching on "the external and visible life of the monks" and of the latter as dealing with "the invisible character of the inner man" (1 praef. 5). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In this first of three prefaces Cassian compares The Institutes and the first ten books of The Conferences (if we are to credit 2 praef. 2 it would appear that he had not yet planned on writing the remaining fourteen; but cf. p. 397), speaking of the former as touching on "the external and visible life of the monks" and of the latter as dealing with "the invisible character of the inner man" (1 praef. 5). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spiritual theoria, aforesaid old man, spiritual soldiery, evening synaxis, salutary compunction, genital movements, anchorite life, three renunciations, apostolic love, desert literature, perpetual purity, true discretion, chosen orientation, gospel perfection, anchoritic life, carnal vices, first renunciation, thirteenth conference, blessed apostle, seething emotions, cenobitic life, other holy persons, blessed job, something indifferent, zeal for virtue Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy Spirit, Holy Scripture, Abba John, Old Testament, Jesus Christ, Gregory of Nyssa, Abba Paphnutius, Abba Theonas, Holy Communion, John Moschus, Abba Moses, Abba Serapion, Son of God, Abba Isaac, Abba Joseph, Clement of Alexandria, Abba Abraham, Abba Chaeremon, Abba Nesteros, Abba Paul, Abba Piamun, New York, Gregory the Great, Theodoret of Cyrus, Abba Apollos New!
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- The Life of Shenoute by Besa CS73 (Cistercian Studies Series) by Besa on 4 pages
- The Body and Society by Professor Peter Brown on page 432, and page 617
- Lausiac History of Palladius (Texts and Studies: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic L) by Cuthbert Butler on page 208, and page 389
- John Cassian by Owen Chadwick on page 463
- Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: Stoicism in Christian Latin Thought Through the Sixth Century (Studies in the History of Christian Thought , No 35/2) by Marcia L. Colish in Front Matter
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