John Cassian Collection 4 Books

THE obligation, which was promised to the blessed Pope Castor in the preface to those volumes which with God's help I composed in twelve books on the Institutes of the Coenobia, and the remedies for the eight principal faults, has now been, as far as my feeble ability permitted, satisfied. I should certainly like to see what was the opinion fairly arrived at on this work both by his judgment and yours, whether, on a matter so profound and so lofty, and one which has never yet been made the subject of a treatise, we have produced anything worthy of your notice, and of the eager desire of all the holy brethren. But now as the aforesaid Bishop has left us and departed to Christ, meanwhile these ten Conferences of the grandest of the Fathers, viz., the Anchorites who dwelt in the desert of Scete, which he, fired with an incomparable desire for saintliness, had bidden me write for him in the same style (not considering in the greatness of his affection, what a burden he placed on shoulders too weak to bear it)--these Conferences I have thought good to dedicate to you in particular, O blessed Pope, Leontius, and holy brother Helladius. Aeterna Press

The first written work of John Cassian in which he shares the wisdom of Egyptian monasticism, especially rules of monastic life & lessons on battling the eight principal vices.

John Cassian (d. c.435) brought the teachings of the Egyptian desert fathers to the Latin West. A. M. C. Casiday offers a revisionist account of his work, restoring the stories he tells to a position of importance as an integral part of his monastic theology.

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. Sometimes portrayed as simply an advocate of the sophisticated spiritual theology of Evagrius of Ponticus (360-435), Cassian was actually a theologian of keen insight, realism, and creativity. His teaching on sexuality is unique in early monastic literature in both its breadth and its depth, and his integration of biblical interpretation with the ways of prayer and teaching on ecstatic prayer are of fundamental importance for the western monastic tradition. The only Latin writer included in the classic Greek collections of monastic sayings, Cassian was the major spiritual influence on both the Rule of the Master and the Rule of Benedict, as well as the source for Gregory the Great's teaching on capital sins and compunction. Columba Stewart's book is the first major study of Cassian to be published in twenty years. It begins by establishing Cassian's credibility as a teacher on the basis of his own experience as a monk and his familiarity with the fundamental literary sources. Stewart then turns to Cassian's spiritual theology, paying particular attention to Cassian's view of the monastic journey in eschatological perspective, his teaching on continence and chastity, the Christological basis of biblical interpretation and prayer, his method of unceasing prayer, and his integration of ecstatic experience with an Evagrian theology of prayer.

Drawing on his early experience as a monk in Bethlehem and Egypt, John Cassian (c. 365-c. 435) journeyed to the West to found monasteries in Marseilles and the region of Provence. Conferences is his masterpiece, a study of the Egyptian ideal of the monk.

"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This volume is accurately annotated, including * an extensive biography of the author and his life Saint John Cassian (ca. 360 – 435) (Latin: Jo(h)annes Eremita Cassianus, Joannus Cassianus, or Joannes Massiliensis), John the Ascetic, or John Cassian the Roman, was a Christian theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings. He is known both as one of the "Scythian monks" and as one of the "Desert Fathers." (courtesy of wikipedia.com) This edition includes the following works: Contents: The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Coenobia Book I. Of the Dress of the Monks. Book II. Of the Canonical System of the Nocturnal Prayers and Psalms. Book III. Of the Canonical System of the Daily Prayers and Psalms. Book IV. Of the Institutes of the Renunciants. Book V. Book VI. On the Spirit of Fornication. WE have thought best to omit altogether the translation of this book. Book VII.of the Spirit of Covetousness. Book VIII. Of the Spirit of Anger. Book IX. Of the Spirit of Dejection. Book X. Of the Spirit of Accidie. Book XI. Of the Spirit of Vainglory. Book XII. Conferences of John Cassian. Preface. I. First Conference of Abbot Moses. II. Second Conference of Abbot Moses. III. Conference of Abbot Paphnutius. IV. Conference of Abbot Daniel. V. Conference of Abbot Serapion. VI. Conference of Abbot Theodore. VII. First Conference of Abbot Serenus. VIII. The Second Conference of Abbot Serenus. IX. The First Conference of Abbot Isaac. X. The Second Conference of Abbot Isaac. XI. The First Conference of Abbot Chaeremon. XII. The Second Conference of Abbot Chaeremon. XIII. The Third Conference of Abbot Chaeremon. XIV. The First Conference of Abbot Nesteros. XV. The Second Conference of Abbot Nesteros. XVI. The First Conference of Abbot Joseph. XVII. The Second Conference of Abbot Joseph. XVIII. Conference of Abbot Piamun. XIX. Conference of Abbot John. XX. Conference of Abbot Pinufius. XXI. The First Conference of Abbot Theonas. XXII. The Second Conference of Abbot Theonas. XXIII. The Third Conference of Abbot Theonas. XXIV. Conference of Abbot Abraham. The Seven Books on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius.