Part I : Education -- Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor 1.1-4, 13 -- Teachings of Silvanus, Nag Hammadi Codex VII, Work 4 -- Gregory the Wonderworker, Address to Origen 5-9 -- Methodius of Olympus, Symposium 5.1-5, 6 -- Part II : Advice -- Antony of Egypt, Letters 1 and 4 -- Athanasius, Letter to Amoun -- Ammonas, Letters 2, 10 and 12 -- Evagrius of Pontus, Protrepticus -- Evagrius of Pontus, Paraeneticus -- John Chrysostom, Letters to Olympias 9, 12 and 17 -- John Cassian, Conferences 1. Prologue, 1-4, 7-8 and 15-28 -- Book of Steps, memre 10 and 18 -- Part III : Forming Communities -- Pachomius, Paralipomena 19-20 -- Basil of Caesarea, Canonical Letters (Letters 188, 199, 217) -- Gregory of Nyssa, Canonical Letter to Letoius -- Shenoute of Atripe, Abraham our Father -- Shenoute of Atripe, As I Sat on a Mountain -- Rabbula, Canons for Monks and Clerics -- John of Tella, Canons -- Part IV : Instructing Congregations -- Cyril of Jerusalem, Prologue and Mystical Catecheses -- John Chrysostom, Baptismal Instructions -- Theodore of Mopsuestia, Homily on Baptism -- Augustine, On Catechizing the Uninstructed 1-6, 9-13 -- Narsai, On the Symbols of the Church and on Baptism.