Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Monastic theology in fifth-century southern Gaul
2: Cassianus contra Pelagianos
3: Cassian's tradition
4: Prayer according to Cassian
5: `Into the Holy of Holies': Cassian's Christology
Conclusion

About the Author

A. M. C. Casiday is Leverhulme Fellow, Department of Theology, University of Durham.

Reviews

valuable in many ways. William Harmless, Ecclesiatical History outstanding reappraisal of Cassian...this volume filled with numerous insights and blessed with graceful and pellucid writing, does not remotely read like the revised doctoral dissertation that it is; it has not only the dissertation's requisite learning but also the added luxuriousness of a stylist's careful and challenging though comfortable - and even witty - exposition. Tim Vivian, Sobornost Casiday's Tradition and Theology in St John Cassian is an important book. It will help awaken us from the dogmatic slumber Prosper of Aquitaine has cast over us, and allow us a new appreciation of Cassian. M.A. Claussen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review