Contextualizing Cassian: Aristocrats, Asceticism, and Reformation in Fifth-Century Gaul. By Richard J. Goodrich
The fifth-century monastic writer John Cassian, the subject of this enterprising monograph by Richard J. Goodrich, is likely to be a very familiar name to anyone interested in the history of Western asceticism; but he has rarely emerged as a personality in his own right. This is partly because, unli...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 376-378 |
| Review of: | Contextualizing Cassian (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2007) (Williams, Michael Stuart)
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| Summary: | The fifth-century monastic writer John Cassian, the subject of this enterprising monograph by Richard J. Goodrich, is likely to be a very familiar name to anyone interested in the history of Western asceticism; but he has rarely emerged as a personality in his own right. This is partly because, unlike his contemporary Jerome, who left a trail of opinions wherever he went, Cassian is known to us almost exclusively through his two major works: his Institutes (De institutis) and his Conferences (Collationes patrum). The primary aim of this study is to place these writings in the context of the church in Gaul—and in the process, to recapture something of their original intentions and force. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp181 |