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 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 Cassian s Conferences written by Christopher J. Kelly and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the 'Conferences', especially its biblical models, to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul. This book demonstrates how the scriptures functioned as a dynamic force in the lives of Christians, emphasizes the importance of Cassian in the development of the Western monastic tradition, and offers an alternative to the sometimes problematic descriptions of patristic exegesis as allegory or typology.
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 170 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 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 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 OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard J. Goodrich examines the attempt by the fifth-century ascetic writer John Cassian to influence and shape the development of Western monasticism. Goodrich's close analysis of Cassian's earliest work (The Institutes) focuses on his interaction with the values and preconceptions of a traditional Roman elite, as well as his engagement with contemporary writers. By placing The Institutes in context, Goodrich demonstrates just how revolutionary this foundational work was for its time and milieu.
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.
Download or read book The Metaphysics of the Incarnation written by Richard Cross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus is one of the richest in the history of Christian theology. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation aims to provide a thorough examination of the doctrine in this era, making explicit its philosophical and theological foundations. Medieval theologians believed that there were good reasons for supposing that Christ's human nature was an individual. In the light of this, Part 1 discusses how the various thinkers held that an individual nature could be united to a divine person. Part 2 shows how one divine person could be incarnate without any other. Part 3 deals with questions of Christological predication, and Part 4 shows how an individual nature is to be distinguished from a person. The work begins with a full account of the metaphysics presupposed in the medieval accounts, and concludes with observations relating medieval accounts to modern Christology.
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 Cassian s Conferences written by Christopher J. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Manual of Ascetical Theology Or the Supernatural Life of the Soul on Earth and in Heaven written by Arthur Devine and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX CONCLUSIONS THE BEATIFIC VISION SUPERNATURAL THE CONSUMMATION OF ADOPTION AND OF THE SUPERNATURAL LIFE na7uhrtfuptr' DEGREESE have supposed in the preceding chapters the thrSeaTifi / supernatural character of the Beatific Vision, and by and Pnroved.d recalling to mind once more its nature and its gifts we can understand how, in very truth, the life of the blessed in heaven is the final perfection and crown of our supernatural adoption It is the inheritance proper to the children of God, according to the words of St. Paul: And if sons, heirs also: heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ;x and it is therefore the consummation of their adoption; and adoption as sons of God, as we have seen in the first part of this work, is most certainly supernatural. Its supernatural character may also be inferred from the names and the gifts which are attributed in Sacred Scripture to the heavenly beatitude. By it the blessed are made fellowcitizens with the Saints and the domestics of God,1 sharers of the kingdom and throne of Christ, and His joint-heirs, partakers of His goods and of His beatitude, according to the words of our Lord: And if I shall go, and prepare a place for you: I 1 Rom. viii. 17; Gal. iv. 7. 2 Eph. ii. 19. will come again, and take you to Myself, that where I am you also may be;l and those other words: To him that shall overcome, I will give to sit zvith Me in My throne: as I also have overcome, and am set down with My Father in His throne? This place and position cannot be considered as due to created nature, or to a foreigner or servant. Wages are due to a servant, but the paternal goods, the goods proper to the children, and the intimate familiarity with the head of the house or family, are not bestowe
Download or read book The Spiritual Life written by Adolphe Tanquerey and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 A Manual of Ascetical Theology written by Arthur Devine and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Concept of the Absurd and Its Theological Reception in Christian Monasticism written by Bernard Sawicki and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this study is to compare the theoretical vision of monasticism with some aspects of modern philosophical thought. Here the form of presentation is as important as the material presented, and their mutual dependence and correlation defines the character of the work. This is a study entirely out of the common run, yet in its own way attractive and approachable. It comes forth as an ardent challenge from a profound perspective that is profoundly unsettling: the absurdity of the world and the stance that sees it all as absurd may find their salvation in the still greater absurdity of Christianity, that is, in the abyss of its mysteries and the message of the Cross; in the mystical theology of penetrating perceptions and radically inverted insights; in the extravagant practices of an archetypal and anonymous monasticism that finds its model in the Desert Fathers and its realization in so many self-consciously marginal figures of twentieth century spirituality. But what is the absurd? Does it really exist and, if so, how does it manifest itself on the scene of our existence? disturbance, a ferment in the midst of human experience. The absurd, even at its most imposing, shows up in the futility and brokenness of life as lived. But how to get a hold on it? How to circumscribe it? In this context, the structures devised by our author are highly original and of great help. His table of categories, schematics and focal points serve to individuate the absurd against the background noise of existence: of human feeling, perception and language that situate the absurd in the structure of a cosmos lived in by persons. It is as if the categories invented by philosophers from Aristotle to Kant, and Husserl to provide a conceptual framework for human cognition are redeployed in the work of our author to the task of comprehending the incomprehensible: the absurd. His approach allows the absurd to be distinguished clearly from some experiences that approximate it, such as the tragic, the grotesque, madness, paradox, thus giving the absurd its own unmistakable physiognomy. What would the absurd, not to speak of faith, be without the flesh and spirit of the lived life? for their styles of living and writing, all of whom oscillate between the absurd experience of the absurd and the courageous attempt to insert it into theory and practice, into a commitment of belief and ethics, all the while haunted by doubt and often succumbing under burdens of the task. The chapters on Camus, Cioran, Schneider, Quinzio, Blondel, Weil, Hillesum and Bonhoeffer are profiles with remarkable efficacy for elucidating the individuality of each personage from the inside and out, giving each of them a unique physiognomy. There emerge the diverse strategies and attitudes that allowed these writers to confront the absurd in a fruitful way: the seriousness and ethical severity, irony and mysticism, blindly crossing the tragic abyss, the apocalyptic pull, hope in the eschaton, while demonstrating courage and the casual air that results from a genuine indifference toward oneself, a conscious self-forgetting that is open to the Absolute, to trust in a God who might save your and my freedom and dignity. figure and hidden filigree of existence: each one of us is and leads a life that is solitary and vulnerable, expropriated, that is situated in a deep sympathy with the lives of others, so to lay itself open to the word and prompting of the Absolute. With, as traveling companions, unconventional churchmen the likes of Merton, de Certeau, Panikkar, Dossetti we move closer to a new rereading of the Desert Fathers, discovering in them our allies in the experience of the absurd and in overcoming it with mirth, effort and courage, on behalf of a new intuition of the Christian faith which in our age needs to be rediscovered and re-explored. This is a study, yes, but still more a map of a journey in the infinite landscape of existence and of the mystery of living and believing.
