{"product_id":"ascetics-authority-and-the-church-philip-rousseau-9780268040291","title":"Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his \u003ci\u003eAscetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 eventual triumph of the coenobitic movement and its growing effect within the church, not least on the episcopate. He focuses primarily on the development among ascetics of a certain concept of spiritual authority; on the attraction of that concept for a wider audience; and on its enduring formulation within a literary tradition of great influence. For this second edition, Rousseau has supplied a new introduction, with extensive bibliographical references, that charts the ways in which scholarship on early Christian asceticism has developed since his compelling and influential original argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this second edition, Rousseau has supplied a new introduction with extensive bibliographical references in which he charts the ways in which scholarship on early Christian asceticism has developed since his compelling and influential original argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 026804029X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268040291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Philip Rousseau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119497015551,"sku":"9780268040291","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ascetics-authority-and-the-church-philip-rousseau-9780268040291","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}