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Author : Karl Arthur Krumroy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Asceticism written by Karl Arthur Krumroy and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : The Linacre Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425909239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)
Download or read book After Asceticism written by The Linacre Institute and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cigarettes and the habit of smoking have a threefold hold on people, physically, spiritually and mentally, and they run deep within the person's core being. The only true way to kick this habit is to acknowledge to yourself that you are a smoker. Forge weapons and develop skills to use them that will effectively wipe your smoking habit off the face of your life. You must take this personally, because cigarettes are going to take you out personally and it will not be out to dinner and a movie. Cigarettes and the habit of smoking have a mission. These two fraternal twins desire to see you dead, half-dead or wishing you were dead. There are many stop-smoking products on the market that will assist you; I don't want to put down anyone else's attempt to help you. I am convinced that if you choose to apply the pathways in this book, they will truly help you choose to ignite a burning desire to stop smoking for life. I offer you no pills, creamy lotions, patches, or magic potions. I was once a smoker and have walked that road. This booklet is my attempt to motivate you, because it starts with you and your choice.
Author : John Delafield
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy written by John Delafield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy" by John Delafield. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : The Linacre Institute
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1425909248
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (259 download)
Download or read book After Asceticism written by The Linacre Institute and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cigarettes and the habit of smoking have a threefold hold on people, physically, spiritually and mentally, and they run deep within the person's core being. The only true way to kick this habit is to acknowledge to yourself that you are a smoker. Forge weapons and develop skills to use them that will effectively wipe your smoking habit off the face of your life. You must take this personally, because cigarettes are going to take you out personally and it will not be out to dinner and a movie. Cigarettes and the habit of smoking have a mission. These two fraternal twins desire to see you dead, half-dead or wishing you were dead. There are many stop-smoking products on the market that will assist you; I don't want to put down anyone else's attempt to help you. I am convinced that if you choose to apply the pathways in this book, they will truly help you choose to ignite a burning desire to stop smoking for life. I offer you no pills, creamy lotions, patches, or magic potions. I was once a smoker and have walked that road. This booklet is my attempt to motivate you, because it starts with you and your choice.
Author : Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198034512
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Asceticism written by Vincent L. Wimbush and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique vantage point. 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. The work represents the input of more than forty preeminent scholars in a wide range of fields and disciplines, and analyzes asceticism from antiquity to the present in European, Near Eastern, African, Asian, and North American settings. Asceticism is organized around four major themes that cut across religious traditions: origins and meanings of asceticism, which explores the motivations and impulses behind ascetic behaviors; hermeneutics of asceticism, which looks at texts and rhetorics and their presuppositions; aesthetics of asceticism, which documents responses evoked by ascetic impulses and practices, as well as the arts of ascetic practices themselves; and politics of asceticism, which analyzes the power dynamics of asceticism, especially as regards gender, cultural, and ethnic differences. Critical responses to the major papers ensure the focus upon the themes and unify the discussion. Two general addresses on broad philosophical and historical-interpretive issues suggest the importance of the subject of asceticism for wide-ranging but serious cultural-critical discussions. An Appendix, Ascetica Miscellanea, includes six short papers on provocative topics not related to the four major themes, and a panel discussion on the practices and meanings of asceticism in contemporary religious life and culture. A selected bibliography and an index are also included. The only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a model not only for an understanding of a most important dimension of religious life, but also for future interdisciplinary study in general.
Author : Evert Peeters
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459873
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Beyond Pleasure written by Evert Peeters and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of ascetic practices and beliefs. Nostalgic memories of hardship and discipline in the army, youth movements or boarding schools remain as present as the fashionable irritation with the presumed modern-day laziness. In the very texture of contemporary culture, age-old asceticism proves to be remarkably alive. Old ascetic forms were remoulded to serve modern desires for personal authenticity, an authenticity that disconnected asceticism in the course of the nineteenth century from two traditions that had underpinned it since classical antiquity: the public, republican austerity of antiquity and the private, religious asceticism of Christianity. Exploring various aspects such as the history of the body, of aesthetics, science, and social thought in several European countries (Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Belgium), the authors show that modern asceticism remains a deeply ambivalent category. Apart from self-realisation, classical and religious examples continue to haunt the ascetic mind.
Author : Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195151380
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Asceticism written by Vincent L. Wimbush and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive reference work on asceticism with a multicultural, multireligious, and multidisciplinary perspective, Asceticism offers a sweeping view of an elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture. "...A well-nigh inexhaustible source for study and reflection, it belongs in every theological, and especially monastic library."--Religious Studies Review
Author : Coleen P. Zoller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438470835
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Plato and the Body written by Coleen P. Zoller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, it has been the prevailing view that in prioritizing the soul, Plato ignores or even abhors the body; however, in Plato and the Body Coleen P. Zoller argues that Plato does value the body and the role it plays in philosophical life, focusing on Plato's use of Socrates as an exemplar. Zoller reveals a more refined conception of the ascetic lifestyle epitomized by Socrates in Plato's Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, Gorgias, and Republic. Her interpretation illuminates why those who want to be wise and good have reason to be curious about and love the natural world and the bodies in it, and has implications for how we understand Plato's metaphysical and political commitments. This book shows the relevance of this broader understanding of Plato for work on a variety of relevant contemporary issues, including sexual morality, poverty, wealth inequality, and peace.
Author : Edward Howard Griggs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Human Equipment written by Edward Howard Griggs and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Coakley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441162240
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The New Asceticism written by Sarah Coakley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds. Professor Coakley is as familiar with the Bible and the Early Fathers as she is with the writings of Freud and Jung, and she draws heavily on Gregory of Nyssa's theology of desire in what she proposes. She points the way through the false modern alternatives of repression and libertinism, agape and eros, recovering a way in which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.
Author : Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226316904
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism written by Geoffrey Galt Harpham and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in culture," and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a "discourse of resistance," a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us.
Author : Joseph Ward Swain
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230242873
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (428 download)
Download or read book The Hellenic Origins of Christian Asceticism written by Joseph Ward Swain and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI Philosophical Asceticism In the preceding chapter it was seen how, beginning in the last century before Christ, large numbers of people began to give themselves over to all sorts of ascetic practices; from the opening of tbis century until the end of the pagan world, such practices became ever more popular. The persons who did such things, however, did not do them from strictly religious motives, but rather from ethical ones: the asceticism which has been described was a distinctly ethical asceticism. Two different sorts of asceticism have been found in the Roman Empire, then, one religious and largely oriental, the other ethical, and more distinctly Greek--though it too was influenced by oriental forceT. _ 5ut there was a third sort as well, which must be described before the present study will be complete. In general, the persons whose activities were described in the last chapter were not very philosophic persons; they were not the sort who would think things through and formulate a reasoned exposition of the grounds for their conduct; they were content to invoke a few general conceptions and let it go at that. But at the same time there were other persons, likewise interested in asceticism, who were more deep-thinking. These latter were profoundly influenced by the more popular asceticism which they saw about them, and which was undoubtedly the determining cause of their own, but owing to their character, they could not rest content until they had worked out a rationale of the whole thing. These more philosophic persons therefore formulated a philosophy of asceticism which stated in enduring terms the confusedly 104 i felt aspirations of the popular ascetics of their day. Not only do they serve to clarify this popular...
Author : J. A. Ziesler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802815682
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Christian Asceticism written by J. A. Ziesler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gavin D. Flood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521843383
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Ascetic Self written by Gavin D. Flood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2004 book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The author claims that asceticism can be understood as the internalisation of tradition, the shaping of the narrative of a life in accordance with the narrative of tradition that might be seen as the performance of the memory of tradition. Such a performance contains an ambiguity or distance between the general intention to eradicate the will, or in some sense to erase the self, and the affirmation of will in ascetic performance such as weakening the body through fasting. Asceticism must therefore be seen in the context of ritual. The book also offers a paradigm for comparative religion more generally, one that avoids the inadequate choices of either examining religions through overarching categories on the one hand and the abandoning of any comparative endeavour that focuses purely on area-specific study on the other.
Author : George Wesley Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The West Virginia Pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal Church written by George Wesley Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 756 pages
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Total Pages : 738 pages
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Download or read book Princeton Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
