57. John Cassian
Subtitle: The Conferences (Ancient Christian Writers)
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780809104840
Subjects: Christian theology; Personal Christian testimony & popular inspirational works; Spirituality - General; Individual Theologians And Their Works (General); Religion; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; Spiritual life; Monastic and religious life; Christian Theology - Catholic; History; Christianity - Theology - Catholic; Christian Theology - General; Asceticism; Christianity; Early works to 1800
First sentence: In this first of three prefaces Cassian compares The Institutes and the first ten books of The Conferences (if we are to credit 2 praef. 2 it would appear that he had not yet planned on writing the remaining fourteen; but cf. p. 397), speaking of the former as touching on "the external and visible life of the monks" and of the latter as dealing with "the invisible character of the inner man" (1 praef. 5).