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The Conferences of John Cassian
John Cassian · Christianity · c. 420 CE
Translated by Edgar C. S. Gibson (1894)
27 chapters
The 24 conferences in which John Cassian — the channel through which Egyptian desert monasticism reached the Latin West — records the spiritual teaching of fifteen abbots of the Egyptian desert.
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Contents
- 1Preface
- 2Conference I: Abbot Moses
- 3Conference II: Abbot Moses
- 4Conference III: Abbot Paphnutius
- 5Conference IV: Abbot Daniel
- 6Conference V: Abbot Serapion
- 7Conference VI: Abbot Theodore
- 8Conference VII: Abbot Serenus
- 9Conference VIII: Abbot Serenus
- 10Conference IX: Abbot Isaac
- 11Conference X: Abbot Isaac
- 12Preface to Part II
- 13Conference XI: Abbot Chæremon
- 14Conference XII: Abbot Chæremon
- 15Conference XIII: Abbot Chæremon
- 16Conference XIV: Abbot Nesteros
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