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This is a brilliant, original, and important work. Drawing upon the rich, complex ascetic and spiritual thought of late ancient Christian monastic writer John Cassian, Niki Kasumi Clements examines, critically and creatively, the very ground of ethics. -Douglas E. Christie, author of The Blue Sapphire of the Mind Clements not only offers a clearer understanding of the nuances in late ancient asceticism, but also contributes to contemporary debates on subjectivity, ethics and agency by inviting her audience to a reflexive engagement with the question of what it means to live well amidst contingencies and crises. -NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion

This is a brilliant, original, and important work. Drawing upon the rich, complex ascetic and spiritual thought of fourth-century Christian monastic writer John Cassian, Niki Kasumi Clements examines, critically and creatively, the very ground of ethics. --Douglas E. Christie, Loyola Marymount University

This is a brilliant, original, and important work. Drawing upon the rich, complex ascetic and spiritual thought of late ancient Christian monastic writer John Cassian, Niki Kasumi Clements examines, critically and creatively, the very ground of ethics. -Douglas E. Christie, author of The Blue Sapphire of the Mind

This is a brilliant, original, and important work. Drawing upon the rich, complex ascetic and spiritual thought of fourth-century Christian monastic writer John Cassian, Niki Kasumi Clements examines, critically and creatively, the very ground of ethics. -- Douglas E. Christie, Loyola Marymount University

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Niki Kasumi Clements is the Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Assistant Professor of Religion and the Allison Sarofim Assistant Professor of Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Rice University.

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