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John Cassian: The Conferences. Translated and annotated by Boniface Ramsey, O.P. Ancient Christian Writers 57. New York: Paulist, 1997. xvi + 886 pp. $39.95 cloth.

In 1989 Boniface Ramsey published, in this same series, the first complete English translation of the sermons of Maximus of Turin. He has now provided the same valuable service for Cassian's Conferences (his nearest competitor in this regard, E. C. S. Gibson in LNPF 11, ser. 2, passed over two of the...