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

by Roger Haight, Alfred Pach

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

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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.
Western Monastic Spirituality: Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict and An Alternative Vision
An Alternative VisionWestern Monastic Spirituality: Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict

  • Title

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

  • Authors

    Roger Haight +2

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Fordham University Press

  • Published

    June 2022

  • Weight

    191g

  • Page Count

    120

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9781531502164

  • ISBN-10

    1531502164

  • Eden Code

    5671215

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