Download or read book John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity written by Joshua Daniel Schachterle and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a study of the writings of John Cassian (360-435 CE).
Download or read book Exercising Obedience written by Joshua Daniel Schachterle and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cassian written by Owen Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conferences of John Cassian Conferences I XXIV Except for XII and XXII written by John Cassian and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 for his mystical writings. The Conferences summarize important conversations that Cassian had with elders from Scetis about principles of the spiritual and ascetic life. This book addresses specific problems of spiritual theology and the ascetic life.
Download or read book The Works of John Cassian written by John Cassian and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassian was a monk and ascetic writer of Southern Gaul, and the first to introduce the rules of Eastern monasticism into the West, b. probably in Provence about 360; d. about 435, probably near Marseilles. Gennadius refers to him as a Scythian by birth (natione Scytha), but this is regarded as an erroneous statement based on the fact that Cassian passed several years of his life in the desert of Scete (heremus Scitii) in Egypt. The son of wealthy parents, he received a good education, and while yet a youth visited the holy places in Palestine, accompanied by a friend, Germanus, some years his senior. In Bethlehem Cassian and Germanus assumed the obligations of the monastic life, but, as in the case of many of their contemporaries, the desire of acquiring the science of sanctity from its most eminent teachers soon drew them from their cells in Bethlehem to the Egyptian deserts. Before leaving their first monastic home the friends promised to return as soon as possible, but this last clause they interpreted rather broadly, as they did not see Bethlehem again for seven years. During their absence they visited the solitaries most famous for holiness in Egypt, and so attracted were they by the great virtues of their hosts that after obtaining an extension of their leave of absence at Bethlehem, they returned to Egypt, where they remained several years longer. It was during this period of his life that Cassian collected the materials for his two principal works, the "Institutes" and "Conferences". From Egypt the companions came to Constantinople, where Cassian became a favourite disciple of St. John Chrysostom. The famous bishop of the Eastern capitol elevated Cassian to the diaconate, and placed in his charge the treasures of his cathedral. After the second expulsion of St. Chrysostom, Cassian was sent as an envoy to Rome by the clergy of Constantinople, for the purpose of interesting Pope Innocent I in behalf of their bishop. It was probably in Rome that Cassian was elevated to the priesthood, for it is certain that on his arrival in the Eternal City he was still a deacon. From this time Germanus is no more heard of, and of Cassian himself, for the next decade or more, nothing is known. About 415 he was at Marseilles where he founded two monasteries, one for men, over the tomb of St. Victor, a martyr of the last Christian persecution under Maximian (286-305), and the other for women. The remainder of his days were passed at, or very near, Marseilles. His personal influence and his writings contributed greatly to the diffusion of monasticism in the West. Although never formally canonized, St. Gregory the Great regarded him as a saint, and it is related that Urban V (1362-1370), who had been an abbot of St. Victor, had the words Saint Cassian engraved on the silver casket that contained his head. At Marseilles his feast is celebrated, with an octave, 23 July, and his name is found among the saints of the Greek Calendar.
Download or read book John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture written by Steven D. Driver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book 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 he had received from Egyptial Christian monks. This instruction was at its core an interactive experience, depending upon both the discernment of the master and diligent application of instruction by the student. Driver examines Cassian's understanding of the act of reading and suggests the implications of this for Cassian's monastic teaching and it interprets Cassian's method of reading in light of contemporary discussions of reading and the self.
Download or read book Sites of the Ascetic Self written by Niki Kasumi Clements and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic forms of life. Cassian’s late ancient texts, written in the context of social, cultural, political, doctrinal, and environmental change, contribute to an ethics for fractured selves in uncertain times. In response to this environment, Cassian’s practical asceticism provides a uniquely frank picture of human struggle in a world of contingency while also affirming human agency in ways that signaled a challenge to followers of his contemporary, Augustine of Hippo. Niki Kasumi Clements brings these historical and textual analyses of Cassian’s monastic works into conversation with contemporary debates at the intersection of the philosophy of religion and queer and feminist theories. Rather than focusing on interiority and renunciation of self, as scholars such as Michel Foucault read Cassian, Clements analyzes Cassian’s texts by foregrounding practices of the body, the emotions, and the community. By focusing on lived experience in the practical ethics of Cassian, Clements demonstrates the importance of analyzing constructions of ethics in terms of cultivation alongside critical constructions of power. By challenging modern assumptions about Cassian’s asceticism, Sites of the Ascetic Self contributes to questions of ethics, subjectivity, and agency in the study of religion today.
Download or read book Contextualizing Cassian written by Richard J. Goodrich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how John Cassian, a fifth-century Gallic author, tried to direct and reshape the development of Western monasticism. Richard J. Goodrich focuses on how Cassian's ascetic treatises were tailored to persuade a wealthy, aristocratic audience to adopt a more stringent, Christ-centred monastic life.
Download or read book John Cassian written by Owen Chadwick and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shepherd of Hermas as Scriptura Non Grata written by Robert D. Heaton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed within the first Christian century by a Roman named Hermas, the Shepherd remains a mysterious and underestimated book to scholars and laypeople alike. Robert D. Heaton argues that early Christians mainly received the Shepherd positively and accepted it unproblematically alongside texts that would ultimately be canonized, requiring decisive actions to exclude it from the late-emerging collection of texts now known as the New Testament. Freshly evaluating the evidence for its popularity in patristic treatises, manuscript recoveries, and Christian material culture, Heaton propounds an interpretation of the Shepherd of Hermas as a book meant to guide his readers toward salvation. Ultimately, Heaton depicts the loss of the Shepherd from the closed catalogue of Christian scriptures as a deliberate constrictive move by the fourth-century Alexandrian bishop Athanasius, who found it useless for his political, theological, and ecclesiological objectives and instead characterized it as a book favored by his heretical enemies. While the book’s detractors succeeded in derailing its diffusion for centuries, the survival of the Shepherd today attests that many dissented from the church’s final judgment about Hermas’s text, which portends a version of early Christianity that was definitively overridden by devotion to Christ himself, rather than principally to his virtues.
Download or read book John Cassian and Early Christian Monasticism written by John Lowden Knight and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cassian and the Meaning of Monastic Patria written by S.J. Wegenka (Michael) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Labour of Subjectivity written by Andrea Rossi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in de-subjectivation. To what extent did this claim shape his philosophical practice? What are its theoretical and ethical justifications? Why did Foucault come to view the production of subjectivity as a key site of political and intellectual emancipation in the present? Andrea Rossi pursues these questions in The Labour of Subjectivity. The book re-examines the genealogy of the politics of subjectivity that Foucault began to outline in his lectures at the Collège de France in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He explores Christian confession, raison d’état, biopolitics and bioeconomy as the different technologies by which Western politics has attempted to produce, regulate and give form to the subjectivity of its subjects. Ultimately Rossi argues that Foucault’s critical project can only be comprehended within the context of this historico-political trajectory, as an attempt to give the extant politics of the self a new horizon.
Download or read book The Quest for Contemplation in John Cassian s Monastic Writings written by Nghi Dinh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quest for Contemplation in John Cassian s Monastic Writings written by Nghi Dinh (O.P.) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cassian s Position on Monasticism Through the Medium of His Theology of Incarnation and Its Implication for Ascetical Life written by Claudia M. Zugravu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ritual Dimension of John Cassian s Asceticism written by Joshua W. Brockway and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cassian's two ascetic treatises were certainly influential in the history of the western monasticism. Scholarship on Cassian, often by necessity, focuses on Cassian's sources in the desert tradition or his contemplative insight. The former, exemplified in the work of Robert Taft, approaches Cassian as a witness, albeit not wholly reliable, to the Egyptian practices. The difficulty with such an approach is obvious. Cassian's account was not composed as objective history. In fact, Cassian himself noted that he wrote his two works in order to reorient the practices of the monasteries in Gaul. The second approach, exemplified in the work of Columba Stewart, while treating Cassian's literary sources, focuses specifically on Cassian's understanding of contemplation. These two methodologies, understandable given that Cassian treated the topic across The Institutes and The Conferences, has obscured the integral relationship between liturgical and contemplative prayer. The present study explores this relationship, especially within the frame of Cassian's ascetic vision. After establishing Cassian's life and writings, this study turns to outline Cassian's ascetic vision. That is to say that Cassian wrote to establish an ascetic culture in which the inner and outer life of the monk were cultivated by the performances of the monastic community to receive the contemplative vision of God. The third chapter, then, turns specifically to Cassian's depiction of prayer, both liturgical and contemplative. The final chapter explores two key themes within the discussion of Cassian's theological influence, grace and spiritual knowledge. While the first is more contested, the latter has been influential in the history of biblical interpretation. Yet, both topics reveal how the contemplative goal and experience shaped Cassian's understanding of significant theological topics. It is argued, then, that Cassian's ascetic vision defied an easy distinction between the inner and outer monk, solitary and community life, grace and works, ritual and pure prayer.
