John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity - Joshua Schachterle
Foucault, Cassian, and the Creation of Subjects
John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity - Joshua Schachterle
Joshua Schachterle [+]
Independent Scholar
Joshua Schachterle recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Joint Doctoral Program. His dissertation was on New Testament and Early Christianity.
Description
Establishes how Cassian’s creation of monastic subjectivity creates monks for whom monastic identity is necessarily separate from other roles within the institutional Church. To do this, I use Michel Foucault’s notion of the creation of subjects to analyze Cassian’s formation of a specifically Egyptian form of monastic subjectivity for his audience of Gallican monks.