Cassian the Monk

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Cassian the Monk. By Columba Stewart. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. xv + 286 pp. $60.00 (cloth).

Students of early Christian monasticism have had much to celebrate recently with the publication first of Boniface Ramsey's translation of the Conferences of John Cassian (see preceding review) and now with Columba Stewart's fine study, Cassian the Monk. Cassian's influence on western monasticism, as Stewart correctly points out, has been "incalculable" (p. 24), especially through his influence on Saint Benedict and the Benedictine tradition; thus one could say that he is a ...

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