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 6
1The Monks Killed in the Desert2Theodore’s Answer3Good, Bad, and Indifferent4No One Can Force Evil on Another5Does God Create Evil?6Evils That Are Really Afflictions7Is the Killer of a Good Man Guilty?8The Killer Is Punished for What He Meant9Prosperity and Adversity Both Serve the Good10The Man Who Uses Both Hands as Right Hands11Why Trials Come12A Stamp of Hard Steel13Can the Mind Stay the Same?14Going Forward or Going Back15What Is Lost by Leaving One’s Cell16Even the Powers Above Can Change17No One Falls All at Once