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Conferences

Dialogues with desert elders on purity of heart, discernment, prayer, and the gradual formation of virtue.

John Cassianc. AD 4265th century

Overview

Category
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
Genre
Treatise
Tradition
Western
Region
Western Mediterranean
Original language
Latin
Date certainty
Approximate

Historical context

Manuscript context

Conferences circulated in Western Mediterranean and is received through Latin manuscript and translation traditions associated with John Cassian.

Themes

Trinitarian TheologyChristologySpiritual FormationMonastic Formation

Controversies

  • Christological debates

Source links

  • English translation

    www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-02-28

  • Archive mirror

    web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-02-28

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