De incarnatione Christi contra Nestorium (De incarnatione Domini contra Nestorium libri VII)
· John Cassian
· c. 429-430
· treatise
Latin · domain: latin-jerome-augustine · researched 2026-11-14
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
No English translation of this work was located. HOLLIS on 'Cassian on the Incarnation against Nestorius' returns a single modern translation, and it is French: 'Traite de l'incarnation: contre Nestorius' (Sources Chretiennes, Paris: Cerf, 1999); the English records that come back are handbooks and anthologies, not translations of the treatise (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Cassian%20on%20the%20Incarnation%20against%20Nestorius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The contrast with the rest of Cassian's output is stark: the Conferences are translated complete in Ancient Christian Writers 57 (trans. Boniface Ramsey, 1997) and the Institutes in Ancient Christian Writers 58 (2000) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Cassian%20conferences%20Ramsey%20ancient%20christian%20writers&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers volume that carries Cassian (series 2, vol. 11) prints the Conferences and Vincent of Lerins' Commonitory, not the seven books against Nestorius (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf211.toc.html).
Cassian wrote this at the request of Leo the Great's circle as the Western answer to Nestorius, and it is the one place where the author of the Conferences argues dogmatic Christology at length. Its absence from English means the standard picture of Cassian as a purely ascetic writer survives unchallenged; readers of the Conferences have no access to his Christology except through French.
Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435 · 1999 · fre
Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435. "Traité de l'incarnation : contre Nestorius." Paris : Cerf, 1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990086742150203941
Ferm, Robert L. "Readings in the history of Christian thought." New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1964]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990006986500203941
Cite: Tergwame, “On the Incarnation of Christ, against Nestorius”
(latin gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-cassian-incarnation