Contextualizing Cassian
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Contextualizing Cassian
| Author | : Richard J. Goodrich |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2007-08-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199213135 |
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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.
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Language: en
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Richard J. Goodrich examines the attempt by the fifth-century ascetic writer John Cassian to influence and shape the development of Western monasticism. Goodric
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This book considers the great cultural and geopolitical changes in western Eurasia in the fifth century CE. It focuses on the Roman Empire, but it also examines
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