Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian Rousseau

Ascetics Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian\nby Philip Rousseau\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Philip Rousseau\nTitle: Ascetics Authority and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of religion\nPublisher: MR - University of Notre Dame Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9780268040291\nISBN-10: 026804029X\nRRP: \u00A323.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn his Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian, first published in 1978, Philip Rousseau presents 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 explores such societal changes as the.