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Excerpt from Christian Spirituality: From the Time of Our Lord Till the Dawn of the Middle Ages
Following the chronological order, I have synthesized the spiritual teaching of the New Testament, the divine code of asceticism, that of the Apostolic Fathers, and then that of the monks of the fourth and fifth centuries. Next come the Pelagian controversies, which had a considerable in?uence upon asceticism, and gave rise to some extent to the admirable spirituality of St. Augustine, the most living expression of his soul. At the close of the Patristic Era the monachism of the West makes extraordinary strides, and St. Benedict of Nursia and numbers of monastic legislators compress their ascetic teaching into their Rules. In the East, at the dawn of the Middle Ages, monastic institutions acquire their final form according to the Rule of St. Basil, and bring forth a swarm of hagiographers and spiritual writers, many of whom are still celebrated.
Christian piety gains incalculably by contact with these venerable writers, who began by applying to themselves the ascetic principles which they afterwards imparted to others in their books.
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