Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great

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A Note on Translation
A Vision That They May Learn What They Desire
1. Cassian’s Catholic Ascetic Pneumatology
	A Nicene Catholic: The Holy Spirit as Index
	Spirit as Author of Scripture and Tradition
	The Spiritual Meaning of Scripture
	The Holy Spirit is the Former of Ascetic Virtue
2. Cassian’s Ascetic Synthesis: The Spirit in Love and Contemplation
	Love and Thoughts: Purity of Heart
	Affectus, desiderium, et amor
	The Holy Spirit Reforms the Origins of Human Thoughts
	“Full of Broken Thoughts I Cannot Repair”
	Ecstatic Contemplation
	The Spirit at Every Turn
3. Ascetic Pneumatology for the Laity
	Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
	If it Ain’t Broke . . .
	The Holy Spirit in the Holy Sacraments
	Ordering the Church in Worship and Ordination
	The Spirit in the Sacrament of the Eucharist
	Bishops and Abbots under the Same Spirit
4. Led by the Spirit: Augustinian Responses to Pelagianism and Predestination
	Pelagius’ (Inoperative) Pneumatology
	Augustine’s Pneumatological Response to Pelagianism
	“Led by the Spirit”
	Voluntas Spiritalis
	The Sacrament of Regeneration in the Spirit
	The Spirit at the Synod of Orange
	The Spirit from Pelagius to Predestination
5. Off the Map at Lérins: An Augustinian Response to Arianism
	The Non-essential Augustine
	Knowledge of Augustine’s First Rule
	Ignorance of Augustine’s Second Rule
	The Breviarium Fidei Adversus Arianos Haereticos
	Anti-Arian Arguments of Ambrose through the Breviary
	“By” but Not “For” Ascetics
6. Displaced Ascetics: Fulgentius and Maxentius, an Augustinian Synthesis
	Solutions to an Already Resolved Problem
	The Working of the Holy Spirit Deep Within
	Capitula sancti Augustini
	Christ and the Spirit—What is Not Said
	Beyond Scythia from Ruspe—Fulgentius on the Spirit and the Incarnation
	Beyond Lérins from Ruspe—Fulgentius on Missions and Processions
	Beyond Aquitainia from Ruspe—Fulgentius on Reformation and the Trinity
	Synthesis
7. Dialogue of Desire: Gregory’s Ascetic Pneumatology
	Ascetic Conversion in the Spirit
	The Spirit Reforms Thoughts and Desires
	The Spirit Forms Virtues
	The Seven Gifts of the Spirit
	Jesus and the Seven Gifts
	Visitation of the Spirit
	God Speaking Within
	The Dialogue of Desire
8. The Spirit in Contemplation and Allegory
	The Figurative Interpretation of Scripture
	Contemplation in this Life and the Next
	Contemplative Reading of Scripture
	Gregory and Cassian on Ecstatic Contemplation in this Life
	Excursus: Augustine on Contemplation, the Eternal Fullness of all our Joys
	The Almighty Hears my Desire
9. Becoming Aflame with the Spirit
	Augustinianisms
	Drawing Lines and Recognizing Divisions
	Outside the Box
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