Introductory material for Dialogue on the life of St. John Chrysostom by Palladius of Galatia, providing context for the edition and the work that follows. The opening subject is “the subject of the memoir.” Topics include pastoral ministry and ordination.
MY interest in monasticism was first awakened in 1904, when I was a theological student at Cambridge, by the publication of the second volume of Abbot Cuthbert Butler's Lausiac History of Palladius. The appearance of a new work of scholarship, however excellent, would have meant little to me at that time, but my imagination was struck by the dinner which the theological teachers at Cambridge combined to give the auth
