John Cassian: The Conferences (Ancient Christian Writers Series, No. 57) - Hardcover

Boniface Ramsey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809104849 ISBN 13: 9780809104840

Publisher: Newman Press, 1997

Synopsis

Since its inception in 1947, the Ancient Christian Writers series has become one of the world's premier patristic collections. Founded by the renowned scholars Johannes Quasten and Joseph Plumpe at The Catholic University of America, the series has grown to fifty-seven volumes over fifty years. Translations of the works of Augustine, Basil, Theodoret, Palladius, Chrysostom, Tertullian and, most recently, Justin Martyr are found amongst the thirty-six authors whose writings comprise the series. Widely recognized as the authoritative American patristic project, the Ancient Christian Writers series launches its second fifty years with the long-anticipated publication of John Cassian's The Conferences, translated and presented by Boniface Ramsey, O.P.

The first complete translation into English of The Conferences, Ramsey's rendering of Cassian is the only extensively annotated edition since the seventeenth century. Included are introductory essays, notes and a useful series of indexes. Popular for centuries in both the East and West, this work will now be available to a wider audience of scholars, students and spiritual seekers.

Anticipated in the next two years are John Cassian's The Institutes (completing the publication of his monastic and ascetical writings in the Ancient Christian Writers series), never-before-published correspondence of Popes Damasus and Liberius, as well as the catechumenate sermons of the North African, Quodvultdeus. As always, each volume will present the reader with a high quality English translation, notes and a scholarly introduction.

The Ancient Christian Writers series is currently edited by well-known scholar and homilist Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., John Dillon of Washington, D.C. and Dennis McManus of Paulist Press.

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin

Review:

A highly readable translation. -- Ashland Theological Journal

A major event in modern monastic studies. -- The American Benedictine Review

A very welcome addition to the Ancient Christian Writers series. -- Emilie Griffin, America

An excellent translation. -- First Things

For those who are interested in the historical development of monastic spirituality, this is essential reading. --Monos

About this edition

• Publisher: Newman Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0809104849
• ISBN 13: 9780809104840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 912