John Cassian and the Reading of Egyptian Monastic Culture
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ascetic practice
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Cassian's Career
Cassian's Text
Cassian’s Career
Cassian’s Text
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Cenobitic Life
contemplative reading
Dox
early Christian spirituality
Egyptian Monastic
Egyptian Monks
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Evagrius Ponticus
Greek Language
Historia Monachorum
Holy Man
John Cassian
John Chrysostom
Late Ancient Philosophy
meditative reading techniques
Monastic Life
monastic pedagogy
Monastic Theology
Monastic Vocation
Origen's Theology
Origenist Controversies
Origenist Monks
Origen’s Theology
Paschal Letter
patristic literature
Pure Prayer
Scythia Minor
Solitary Life
spiritual formation
Spiritual Mysteries
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138973855
- Weight: 226g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
