Cassian, John; Luibheid, Colm [translator]. Conferences; Introduction by Owen Chadwick. New York: Paulist Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780317180831. [7269]
Former library copy, binding has light bumps to corners, text is clean, has standard library markups. No dust jacket, as issued. Good. Hardcover.
"John Cassian (c. 365-c. 435) journeyed to the West to found monasteries in Marseilles and the region of Provence. Conferences is his masterpiece, a study of the Egyptian ideal of the monk."
Contents:
The Goal or Objective of the Monk
On Discernment
The Three Renunciations
On Prayer
On Prayer
On Perfection
On Spiritual Knowledge
The Gifts of God
The Three Kinds of Monk
