عنوان

Ascetics, authority, and the church in the age of Jerome and Cassian /

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0268091730

(Number (ISBN

9780268091736

Erroneous ISBN

026804029X

Erroneous ISBN

9780268040291

Title Proper

Ascetics, authority, and the church in the age of Jerome and Cassian /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Philip Rousseau.

Edition Statement

2nd ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Notre Dame, Ind. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Notre Dame Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxxviii, 278 pages)

Text of Note

OldControl:muse9780268091736.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxxvi) and index.

Text of Note

pt. 1. The desert. Discovering the desert fathers -- Masters and disciples -- The growth of ascetic society -- Ascetics in the church -- The written word -- pt. 2. Western beginnings. Exiles and pilgrims -- Ascetic literature -- pt. 3. Jerome. Antioch, Constantinople, and Rome -- Letters from Bethlehem -- Jerome on the priesthood and episcopate -- Jerome's Lives -- pt. 4. Martin of Tours. A bishop and his biographer -- An apostle in Gaul -- Martin's audience -- pt. 5. Cassian. An exile in reverse -- Hermits or coenobites? -- Adapting Egypt to the West -- Authority -- Monks and the world -- Cassian the writer -- Appendices.

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"In his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, first published in 1978, Philip Rousseau presents a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century, a reading of Sulpicius and Cassian. Rousseau explores such societal changes as the eventual triumph of the coenobitic movement and its growing effect within the church, not least on the episcopate. He focuses primarily on the development among ascetics of a certain concept of spiritual authority; on the attraction of that concept for a wider audience; and on its enduring formulation within a literary tradition of great influence." "For this second edition, Rousseau has supplied a new introduction, with extensive bibliographical references, that charts the ways in which scholarship on early Christian asceticism has developed since his compelling and influential original argument." ""A scholarly, well-documented and extremely interesting work ... [A] most valuable contribution towards understanding the ascetic movement in late antiquity."--Journal of Theological Studies" ""Rousseau captures an essential turning point in the history of western spirituality and shows how the influence of eastern ideas made the crucial difference."--Classical World" ""Ascetics, Authority, and the Church is preeminently a book about literature in its historical setting; a skillful demonstration of how the creation of a written tradition ... was central to the process of bridging the gap between the charismatic power of the holy man and the settled monastic community, of preserving the essential tradition of spiritual authority through changing patterns of ascetic life."--Journal of Roman Studies"--Jacket.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctvpgj2jp

Title

Ascetics, authority, and the church in the age of Jerome and Cassian.

Asceticism-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.

Authority-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.

Monastic and religious life-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.

Asceticism-- Early church.

ascétisme-- christianisme-- époque patristique.

Authority-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.

Monastic and religious life-- Early church.

RELIGION / Monasticism

REL-- 015000

REL-- 070000

REL-- 086000

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Book number

Rousseau, Philip.

Date of Transaction

20200822105150.0

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