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 Xll CONTENTS TxaM Labor and obedience 148 Causes of the rapid spread of monasticism. . .160 The Christian contemplative life 163 II. Western Monasticism Eastern and Western monasticism 155 Influence of the four Latin Fathers 168 Cassian's Institutes and Conlationes; monastic vices and their remedies 160 The Benedictine regula 164 III. The Monastic Character General traits 178 Western examples from the transition centuries : Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, Benedict of Nursia, Gregory the Great 183 CHAPTER VIII CHRISTIAN PROSE I. Christianization of Style Contrasts betvsreen classical and primitive Christian writings 198 Formlessness of the latter 200 Effect of the new religion upon literary Latin. . . 202 Tertulliau and the Sermo Plebeius 203 The new Christian vocabulary 204 IL The First Four Centuries of Christian Prose Letters : Paul, Ignatius, Cyprian, Augustine, Jerome. 207 Apologies, Greek and Latin 213 The Civitas Dei 217 Apologetic History ; Orosius 219 Polemics; sermons 223