John Cassian brought the teaching of the Egyptian monks to the West: the twelve books of the Institutes on the monk's life and the eight principal faults, the twenty-four Conferences with the Abbots of Egypt, and his seven books On the Incarnation against Nestorius. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
The Conferences, Conference 5
1The Visit to Abbot Serapion2The Eight Principal Faults3Two Classes of Faults, Four Ways of Working4Gluttony and Sexual Immorality and Their Cures5Only the Lord Was Tempted Without Sin6How the Devil Tempted the Lord7Empty Glory and Pride Need No Help from the Body8Greed Lies Outside Our Nature9Dejection and Acedia Arise Within10How the Eight Faults Are Linked11The Kinds of Each Fault12How Empty Glory Can Be Useful13The Faults Attack Each Person Differently14Fighting Our Chief Fault First15Victory Comes Only with God’s Help16The Seven Nations and Their Many Offspring17Why Seven Nations for Eight Faults?18Egypt, the Nation Already Left Behind19Why Egypt Is Left but Not Destroyed20Gluttony and the Eagle21The Elder and the Philosophers22The Ten Nations Promised to Abraham23Why We Must Take Their Lands24The Land Belonged to the Children of Shem25Seven Spirits Worse Than the First26After Gluttony, the Other Virtues27Not Every Battle in the Same Order