TY  - GEN
T1  - Western monastic spirituality : Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict
T2  - Past light on present life: theology, ethics, and spirituality
A2  - Haight, Roger
A2  - Pach, Alfred, 1949-
A2  - Kaminski, Amanda Avila
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
YR  - 2022
ED  - First edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1317326057
AB  - Western Monastic Spirituality presents three authors as individuals, certainly, but also as textual informants who, like road markers, represent a line of the development of a Western monastic spiritual tradition. John Cassian (ca. 360-435) helped bring the wisdom of northern Egyptian ascetical life of the late fourth century to southern France in the early fifth century. Caesarius of Arles (468/470-542), drawing on his own monastic experience and Augustine's monastic rule, composed a rule for a women's monastery in the city of Arles. Not many years later, Benedict wrote the most influential rule in Western monasticism, one that still regulates the lives of monks today all over the world. These three texts, when looked at serially and together, offer a theology of monastic spirituality, an example of a relatively short but comprehensive early monastic rule, and a present-day Benedictine interpretation of how Benedict's monastic spirituality can be summed up in a short present-day digest of his rule. Reflection on early Western monasticism retrieves some basic Christian spiritual values that should inform life today outside the monastery in a busy, secular culture.
OP  - 145
CN  - BX2432.3 .W47 2022
SN  - 9781531502188
SN  - 1531502180
KW  - Caesarius, : of Arles, Saint, : 470?-542 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Cassian, John, : approximately 360-approximately 435 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Benedict, : Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Benedict, : Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
KW  - Caesarius, : of Arles, Saint, : 470?-542
KW  - Cassian, John, : approximately 360-approximately 435
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders : Western countries : History.
KW  - Monachisme et ordres religieux : Occident : Histoire.
KW  - RELIGION / Spirituality.
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders
KW  - Western countries
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -