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Title: John Cassian: Conferences (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Colm Luibheid, Owen Chadwick, John Cassian ISBN: 0-8091-2694-X Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but surpassed
Comment: The Classics of Western Spirituality edition of Cassian's Conferences seemed extremely appealing, but it is inevitably disappointing to read out-takes from a work as majestic as the Conferences. Admittedly, the Conferences can be daunting: the standard critical edition runs to three volumes, and the recent English translation is a hefty tome of nearly 1000 pages. But (and I say this advisedly) there is no substitute for mulling over the work as a whole. So I would suggest that instead of waiting for this edition to be reprinted, consider buying Boniface Ramsey's translation in the Ancient Christian Writer's series. If you are interested enough to read a second review, then you are probably interested enough to take on an unexpurgated version.
Rating: 4
Summary: Still speaks today
Comment: As with all the books I have read from "The Classics of Western Spirituality" series, John Cassian's "Conferences" is both important and insightful. Cassian is, via the value placed on his writings by St. Benedict, a major figure in the history of western monasticism.
This volume contains nine of Cassian's twenty-four conferences. The conferences cover such topics as prayer, perfection, and purity of heart. By using the device of interviewing famous Egyptian monks and hermits, Cassian deftly distills the essence of early Egyptian monastic and eremitic teachings on these and other topics.
The scholarly introduction to this volume, written by Owen Chadwick, is indispensable for those wishing to set these teachings within the context of Cassian's life and thought. Mr. Chadwick, who has written a book on Cassian is just the man for this task and he does it well.
Colm Luibheid is both the translator of this volume and the author of its skilled and entertaining preface. Cassian's devotion and humor are brought to life in this translation.
Cassian still speaks to us today, one thousand six hundred after his death; in a world foreign to the one he was writing in. How can this be? It because the message of Cassian's writings: devotion and the quest to follow God in purity, spirit and truth, lies at the core of what we as human beings were created for. There is much here to help us (by the grace of God) along that narrow path which leads to the Father.
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Title: Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback)) by Abraham Malherbe ISBN: 0809121123 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1979 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality) by G. R. Evans ISBN: 0809129175 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis (The Classics of Western Spirituality) by Ewert Cousins ISBN: 0809121212 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Athanasius : The Life of Anthony and the Letter To Marcellinus by Robert C Gregg ISBN: 0809122952 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1980 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Julian of Norwich Showings (Classics of Western Spirituality (Paperback)) by Edmund Colledge ISBN: 0809120917 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1978 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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