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’’ ‘MCIASSICS OP^TERN SPIRITUAUIY BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Copley Square mEOASSICS OFWESTERN SPIMTUALfTf THE CLASSICS OF WESTERN SPIRITUALITY A Library of the Great Spiritual Masters President and Publisher Kevin A. Lynch, C.S.P. EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief John Farina Editorial Consultant — Ewert H. Cousins Professor, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. — John E. Booty Professor of Church History, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. — Dan Joseph Professor of Kaballah in the Department of Jewish 1 bought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. — Albert Deblaere Professor of the History of Spirituality, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy. — Louis Dupre T.L. Riggs Professor in Philosophy of Religion, Yale New University, Haven, Conn. — Rozanne Elder Executive Vice President, Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich. — Mircea Eliade Professor in the Department of the History of Religions, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. — Anne Fremantle Teacher, Editor and Writer, New York, N.Y. — Karlfried Froelich Professor of the History of the Early and Medieval Church, Princeton theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J. — Arthur Green Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. — H Stanley S. arakas Professor of Orthodox Christian Ethics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Brookline, Mass. — Jean Leclercq Professor, Institute of Spirituality and Institute of Religious Psychology, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy. — Miguel Leon-Portilla Professor of Mesoamerican Cultures and Languages, National University of Mexico, University City, Mexico. — George A. Maloney, S.J. Director, John XXIII Ecumenical Center, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. — Bernard McGinn Professor of Historical Theology and History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, 111. — John Meyendorff Professor of Church History, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y., and Professor of Patristics and Church History, St. Yladimir’s Seminary, Tuckahoe, N.Y. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Professor of Islamics, Department of Religion, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., and Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. — Heiko A. Oberman Director, Institute fuer Spaetmittelalter und Reformation, Universitaet Tuebingen, VV^est Germany. — Alfonso Ortiz Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. 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Sturtevant General Editor, Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. — David Tracy Professor of Theology, University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, 111. — \^ictor T urner William B. Kenan Professor in Anthropology, I he Center for Advanced Study, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, \a. — KallistOS Ware Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford; Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies, Oxford University, England. Digitized by the Internet Archive 2017 with funding from in Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/conferencesOOcass JOHN CASSIAN CONFERENCES TRANSLATION AND PREFACE BY COLM LUIBHEID INTRODUCTION BY OWEN CHADWICK PAULIST PRESS NEW YORK MAHWAH • (^)vcr Art: KK\ IN 1-'. N()\ \(^K, (>.S.P. is a tree-lancc artist w ho is a nicnihcr of the [xistoral team at the St. Thomas More Newman (xnter, Ohio State L'niversitv. © (a)pyright 1985 bv (a)lm Luibheicl -Ml rights reserved. No part of this book mav be reprodueed or transmitted in anv form or l)y any means, eleetronic or meehanical, ineluding photocopying, recording, or bv anv in- formation storage and retrieval system w ithout permission in w riting from the Publisher. labrarv of (Congress (Catalog (^ard Number: 85-80344 ISBN: 0-8091-2694-X (paper) 0-8091-0361-3 (cloth) [Published by Paulist Press 997 Macarthur Boulevard Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 Printed and bound in the United States of .\merica 1 CONTENTS Foreword ix Preface by Cohn Luibheid xi Introduction by Given Chadivick I Conference One 37 FHF GOAL OR OBjFd E OF THE \10NK I\ Conference I\vo 60 ON DISCERNAIFNT Conference I'hree 81 THE I'HREE RENUNCIATIONS Conference Nine 101 ON PRAYER Conference Fen 125 ON PRAYER • Conferetice Eleven 1 4 ON PERI EC ION I ' Conference Fourteen 1 5 5 ON SPIRI FL AE KNOWLEDGE Conference Fifteen 74 1 HECilETS OI (iOD I Conference Fitrhteen 1 8 3 MONK FI IE IREE KINDS OE 'I I Indexes 202 Vll Translator of this \Olumc (X)LM LL IBl Il'll) was born in 1936 in Dublin, Ireland. le received I his 13. A. and M..\. at Universitv CX)llege, Dublin, and in 1961 he was aw arded a Ph.D. in (dassics at Prineeton Universitv. Sinee 1961 he has been a member of the teaching staff at Univer- sitv Cd)Ilege, (ialw av. le has translated theJohn (dimacus and Pseudo- I Dionvsius volumes in this series. .\uthor of the Introduction ()\\ KN (d lADW I(>K is the Regius Professor-Kmeritus of Modern I listorv, (Cambridge Universitv. I lis many distinguished works on the history of the (diurch include Catholicism and History (1978), I'he Popes and European Revolution (1981), Ehe Reformation (1964), and John Cassian (2nd ed., 1968). vm
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