Schachterle/John Cassian, 5. Cassian's Rhetorical Attempts to Separate Monasticism from the Church

Verifies that Cassian is explicitly advocating for a clear separation between monasticism and the Church. In this chapter, I appeal to evidence from Cassian’s writings where he envisions an increasing distance between the spheres of monasticism and the Church with monastic authority based largely on proper ascetic practice.