John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity Schachterle Joshua Daniel
John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity Schachterle Joshua Daniel John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to…
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John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity Schachterle Joshua Daniel
John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. 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. 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.
In his Institutes, Cassian comments that "a monk ought by all means to flee from women and bishops" (Inst. 11.18). 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. This is indeed an odd comment from a monk, apparently casting bishops as adversaries rather than models for the Christian life.
This book argues that Cassian, in both the Institutes and the Conferences, is advocating for a distinct separation