The New Asceticism

The New Asceticism

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Total Pages: 161

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Sarah Coakley draws both liberal and conservative camps into a new and serious reflection on ascetical theology.

The New Asceticism

The New Asceticism

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Total Pages: 160

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... the new and expanded historical horizon for scholars frustrated by old-style clerical 'patristic' study, which had been primarily concerned with the historic development of doctrinal 'orthodoxy' and thus constrained by ... the new asceticism.

Fullness of Life

Fullness of Life

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Total Pages: 186

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Providing the basis for a greater appreciation of the human body as the focus of life and salvation, this unique work sheds a new light on what it means to be fully alive and fully human in the Christian tradition.

Asceticism and the New Testament

Asceticism and the New Testament

Publisher: Routledge

Total Pages: 457

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... asceticism, to resist a complacent, I-know-it-when-I-see-it engagement with asceticism. This definition invites us to look again at practices long recognized as ascetical—fasting, for example, or sexual renunciation—and to evaluate them ...

Asceticism and Its Critics

Asceticism and Its Critics

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Total Pages: 286

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... a new form of elite asceticism , spawning a number of new religious movements , including the Buddhist and the Jain . A defining char- acteristic of this form of asceticism was its rejection of the very values that formed the ...

`Virgins of God' : The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity

`Virgins of God' : The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Total Pages: 466

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The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity Susanna Elm. followed his example . Many of these pilgrims were women , often ... the New Testament in which women play a truly significant role take place in Jerusalem . It is to Jerusalem that ...

Spiritual Healing

Spiritual Healing

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Total Pages: 332

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To address these questions, the contributors to this volume come together to examine spiritual healing from a number of disciplinary perspectives. How can such healing be explained through a scientific or medical lens?

The Making of the Self

The Making of the Self

Publisher: James Clarke & Company

Total Pages: 332

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This collection gathers historical and theoretical essays develop a theory of asceticism that informs the analysis of historical texts and opens the way for postmodern ascetical studies.

Asceticism and the New Testament

Asceticism and the New Testament

Publisher: Routledge

Total Pages: 336

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This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret the New Testament.

The Life of Bishoi

The Life of Bishoi

Publisher: American University in Cairo Press

Total Pages: 331

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... The New Asceticism, 5. 15 16 17 Virginia Burrus, “Introduction: Theology and Eros after Nygren,” in Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline, ed. Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller (New York ...

Littell's Living Age

Littell's Living Age

Publisher:

Total Pages: 840

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... of new owners , and a year hence , not a stone will be left standing of the famous old King's Arms Hotel at Lancaster . - - THE NEW ASCETICISM . " SPECTATOR . " ] [ TO THE EDITOR OF THE MISS MARTINEAU'S autobigraphy is the first book ...

Asceticism

Asceticism

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Total Pages: 672

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Cross-cultural, cross-religious, and multidisciplinary in nature, these essays provide a broad historical and comparative perspective on asceticism--a subject rarely studied outside the context of individual religious traditions.