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Western Monastic Spirituality: Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict

Name: Western Monastic Spirituality: Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict
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Author: Roger Haight
ISBN: 9781531502164

by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach

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120 pages
Publisher: Fordham University Press
14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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For students of early church history and tradition

Explains the roots of monastic life and its rules

Guides you to live with deeper purpose and focus

Discover the rich heritage of Western monastic life and apply its ancient wisdom to your busy, modern world.

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Western Monastic Spirituality presents three authors as individuals, certainly, but also as textual informants who, like road markers, represent a line of the development of a Western monastic spiritual tradition. John Cassian (ca. 360-435) helped bring the wisdom of northern Egyptian ascetical life of the late fourth century to southern France in the early fifth century. Caesarius of Arles (468/470-542), drawing on his own monastic experience and Augustine's monastic rule, composed a rule for a women's monastery in the city of Arles. Not many years later, Benedict wrote the most influential rule in Western monasticism, one that still regulates the lives of monks today all over the world. These three texts, when looked at serially and together, offer a theology of monastic spirituality, an example of a relatively short but comprehensive early monastic rule, and a present day Benedictine interpretation of how Benedict's monastic spirituality can be summed up in a short present day digest of his rule. Reflection on early Western monasticism retrieves some basic Christian spiritual values that should inform life today outside the monastery in a busy, secular culture.