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Way of the Ascetics

Author : Tito Colliander
Publisher : St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881410495
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Way of the Ascetics written by Tito Colliander and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Way of the Ascetics is a rich, compact introduction for modern readers to the Eastern Christian spiritual tradition that has been an inspiration to millions for centuries. These compassionate and insightful reflections on self-control and inner peace are meant to lead the readers to fuller union with God. The author makes a generous selection of succinct yet profound extracts from the spiritual Fathers and provides an illuminating commentary and practical applications for daily devotion. He tempers austerity with common sense, warmth, and even humor, as he urges us on our journey toward God. Written for lay persons living fully in the world as much as for clergy, Way of the Ascetics is an excellent resource for daily meditation, authentic spiritual guidance, and a revitalized religious life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Abba Isaiah of Scetis Ascetic Discourses

Author : Isaiah (Abba)
Publisher : Cistercian Publications Books
ISBN 13 : 9780879077501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Abba Isaiah of Scetis Ascetic Discourses written by Isaiah (Abba) and published by Cistercian Publications Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the fifth century, during one of the most formative periods of christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine, the Ascetic Discourses show a strong influence of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and of earlier monastic writers. They are marked by a faithfulness to tradition, yet equally by a note of originality distinctive to the Gaza region. Abba Isaiah has set forth a practical guide for monks, ever aware of the challenges that interpersonal relationships present within monastic communities. Functionality, however, does not overwhelm Isaiah's emphasis of the intimate nature of the relationship between the monk and Jesus. He does this by illustrating that the imitation of Christ is at the core of each monk's life.

Evagrius of Pontus

Author : Robert E. Sinkewicz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191516368
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Evagrius of Pontus written by Robert E. Sinkewicz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evagrius of Pontus (c.345-399) was one of the most prominent figures among the monks of the desert settlements of Nitria, Sketis, and Kellia in Lower Egypt. Through the course of his ascetic writings he formulated a systematic presentation of the teaching of the semi-eremitic monks of these settlements. The works of Evagrius had a profound influence on Eastern Orthodox monastic teaching and passed to the West through the writings of John Cassian (c.365-435). This is the first complete English translation of Evagrius' Greek ascetic writings, based on modern critical editions, where available, and, where they are not, on collations of the principal manuscripts. Two appendices provide variant readings for the Greek texts and the complete text of the long recension of Eulogios. The translations are accompanied by a commentary to guide the reader through the intricacies of Evagrian thought by offering explanatory comments and references to other Evagrian texts and relevant scholarly literature. Finally, detailed indexes are provided to allow the reader to identify and study the numerous themes of Evagrian teaching.

Western Asceticism

Author : Owen Chadwick
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Asceticism written by Owen Chadwick and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1881 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of church history and the monastic ascetic life will find this volume of much interest. Contained are three important documents of the early Christian Church: The Sayings of the Fathers, The Conferences of Cassian, and The Rule of Saint Benedict.Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and...

Asceticism

Author : Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198034512
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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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.

The Revolutionary Ascetic

Author : Bruce Mazlish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351475142
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Revolutionary Ascetic written by Bruce Mazlish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have the great revolutionary leaders of modern times?from Robespierre to Lenin and Mao Tse-tung?so often been ascetics, austere "puritans" with few emotional ties? What functions, political as well as personal, do these ascetic traits perform for the modern revolutionary leader and for his followers?Noted historian and author Bruce Mazlish is convinced that, beginning in the nineteenth century, the needs of modernizing revolutions have produced a distinct new type of political leader, the revolutionary ascetic. This individual's denial of personal pleasures and commitments both enables him to perform politically necessary, if personally repulsive, revolutionary acts, and to command the allegiance of his more worldly followers.Starting with Cromwell and the religious ascetics of the Puritan Revolution, Mazlish shows, in a series of fascinating personality sketches, how this asceticism first became secularized with the French Revolution and then in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was put to the service of a new kind of "total" modernizing revolution in Russia, China, and elsewhere. In two remarkably vivid portraits of Lenin and Mao Tse-tung, Mazlish shows us precisely how two of the century's best-known revolutionaries consciously and unconsciously used their personal asceticism to induce revolutionary change.

Beyond Pleasure

Author : Evert Peeters
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845459873
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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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.

The Ascetic Life

Author : Saint Maximus (Confessor)
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809102587
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Ascetic Life written by Saint Maximus (Confessor) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ascetic Life is a dialogue between a young novice and an old monk on how to achieve the Christian life. The Four Centuries is a collection of aphorisms.

British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Femall Glory

Author : Anth. Stafford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752503874
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book The Femall Glory written by Anth. Stafford and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

To Train His Soul in Books

Author : Robin Darling Young
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813217326
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book To Train His Soul in Books written by Robin Darling Young and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Train His Soul in Books explores numerous aspects of this rich religious culture, extending previous lines of scholarly investigation and demonstrating the activity of Syriac-speaking scribes and translators busy assembling books for the training of biblical interpreters, ascetics, and learned clergy.

Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos

Author : Archimandrite Cherubim Karambelas
Publisher : St Herman Press
ISBN 13 : 9780938635574
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Ascetics of Mount Athos written by Archimandrite Cherubim Karambelas and published by St Herman Press. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book Buyer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review and record of current literature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism

Author : Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226316920
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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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 1992-02-15 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.

Reading Renunciation

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823188
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Reading Renunciation written by Elizabeth A. Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-19 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning." Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecialist. Section Two is organized around potentially troubling issues posed by Old Testament texts that demanded skillful handling by ascetically inclined Christian exegetes. The third section, "Reading Paul," focuses on the hermeneutical problems raised by I Corinthians 7, and the Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles. Elizabeth Clark's remarkable work will be of interest to scholars of late antiquity, religion, literary theory, and history.

St. Maximus the Confessor

Author : St. Maximus the Confessor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621385455
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book St. Maximus the Confessor written by St. Maximus the Confessor and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Maximus the Confessor might well be called the Saint of Synthesis. His thought places him between the theologies of East and West and between the Middle Ages and the ancient Church. The Ascetic Life takes the form of question and answer between a novice and an old monk. The Four Centuries on Charity is written in the form of gnomic literature.