ROUSSEAU PHILIP

(P/B) ASCETICS, AUTHORITY, AND THE CHURCH IN THE AGE OF JEROME AND CASSIAN
In his "Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian", published in 1978, Philip Rousseau presented a survey of asceticism in the western church until about 400, including a selective study of Jerome, and then, moving into the fifth century, a reading of Sulpicius and Cassian. Rousseau explored such societal changes as the eventual triumph of the cenobitic movement and its growing effect within the church, not least on the episcopate. He focused primarily on the development among ascetics of a certain concept of spi...
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