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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity

پدید آورنده
Schachterle, Joshua Daniel

موضوع
Religion,Religious history

رده

کتابخانه
Center and Library of Islamic Studies in European Languages

محل استقرار
استان: Qom ـ شهر: Qom

Center and Library of Islamic Studies in European Languages

تماس با کتابخانه : 32910706-025

NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER

Number
TL51070

LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی

TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY

Title Proper
Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Schachterle, Joshua Daniel
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Robbins, Gregory

.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Denver
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019

GENERAL NOTES

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173 p.

DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
University of Denver
Text preceding or following the note
2019

SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT

Text of Note
John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery there by writing monastic manuals, the Institutes and the Conferences. These seminal writings represent the first known attempt to bring the idealized monastic traditions from Egypt, long understood to be the cradle of monasticism, to the West. In his Institutes, Cassian comments that "a monk ought by all means to flee from women and bishops" (Inst. 11.18). This is indeed an odd comment from a monk, apparently casting bishops as adversaries rather than models for the Christian life. In this paper, therefore, I argue that Cassian, in both the Institutes and the Conferences, is advocating for a distinct separation between monastics and the institutional Church. In Cassian's writings and the larger corpus of monastic writings from his era, monks never referred to early Church fathers such as Irenaeus or Tertullian as authorities; instead they cited quotes and stories exclusively from earlier, venerated monks. In that sense, monastic discourse such as Cassian's formed a closed discursive system, consciously excluding the hierarchical institutional Church. Furthermore, Cassian argues for a separate monastic authority based not on apostolic succession but rather on what I term apostolic praxis, the notion that monastic practices such as prayer and asceticism can be traced back to the primitive church. I supplement my study of Cassian's writings with Michel Foucault's analysis of the creation of subjects in order to examine what I believe to be Cassian's formation of a specifically Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his audience, the monks of Gaul. In addition, I employ Foucault's concepts of disciplinary power and pastoral power to demonstrate the effect Cassian's rhetoric would have upon his direct audience, as well as many other monks throughout history.

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Religion
Subject Term
Religious history

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Schachterle, Joshua Daniel

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Robbins, Gregory

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University of Denver

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