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

Publication Data

• Title Ascetics, authority, and the church in the age of Jerome and Cassian
• Author Philip Rousseau
• Publisher University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Notre Dame, Ind.
• Language English

Contents

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.

Topics

• Asceticism :: History :: Early church, ca. 30-600
• Monastic and religious life :: History :: Early church, ca. 30-600
• 015730513

Ascetics, authority, and the church in the age of Jerome and Cassian by Philip Rousseau. ISBN 9780268040291. Published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.