The Way Of The Ascetics
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Author |
: Tito Colliander |
Publisher |
: St Vladimir's Seminary Press |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0881410497 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780881410495 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Way of the Ascetics by : Tito Colliander
"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
Author |
: Tito Colliander |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:32160779 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Way of the Ascetics by : Tito Colliander
Author |
: Tito Colliander |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages |
: 110 |
Release |
: 1960 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0264669150 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780264669151 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Way of the Ascetics by : Tito Colliander
Author |
: Oliver Freiberger |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2006-10-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199719012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199719013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asceticism and Its Critics by : Oliver Freiberger
Scholars of religion have always been fascinated by asceticism. Some have even regarded this radical way of life-- the withdrawal from the world, combined with practices that seriously affect basic bodily needs, up to extreme forms of self-mortification --as the ultimate form of a true religious quest. This view is rooted in hagiographic descriptions of prominent ascetics and in other literary accounts that praise the ascetic life-style. Scholars have often overlooked, however, that in the history of religions ascetic beliefs and practices have also been strongly criticized, by followers of the same religious tradition as well as by outsiders. The respective sources provide sufficient evidence of such critical strands but surprisingly as yet no attempt has been made to analyze this criticism of asceticism systematically. This book is a first attempt of filling this gap. Ten studies present cases from both Asian and European traditions: classical and medieval Hinduism, early and contemporary Buddhism in South and East Asia, European antiquity, early and medieval Christianity, and 19th/20th century Aryan religion. Focusing on the critics of asceticism, their motives, their arguments, and the targets of their critique, these studies provide a broad range of issues for comparison. They suggest that the critique of asceticism is based on a worldview differing from and competing with the ascetic worldview, often in one and the same historical context. The book demonstrates that examining the critics of asceticism helps understand better the complexity of religious traditions and their cultural contexts. The comparative analysis, moreover, shows that the criticism of asceticism reflects a religious worldview as significant and widespread in the history of religions as asceticism itself is.
Author |
: Niki Kasumi Clements |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2020-05-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268107871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268107874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sites of the Ascetic Self by : Niki Kasumi Clements
Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of John Cassian (ca. 360–ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to establish Christian monastic forms of life. Cassian’s late ancient texts, written in the context of social, cultural, political, doctrinal, and environmental change, contribute to an ethics for fractured selves in uncertain times. In response to this environment, Cassian’s practical asceticism provides a uniquely frank picture of human struggle in a world of contingency while also affirming human agency in ways that signaled a challenge to followers of his contemporary, Augustine of Hippo. Niki Kasumi Clements brings these historical and textual analyses of Cassian’s monastic works into conversation with contemporary debates at the intersection of the philosophy of religion and queer and feminist theories. Rather than focusing on interiority and renunciation of self, as scholars such as Michel Foucault read Cassian, Clements analyzes Cassian’s texts by foregrounding practices of the body, the emotions, and the community. By focusing on lived experience in the practical ethics of Cassian, Clements demonstrates the importance of analyzing constructions of ethics in terms of cultivation alongside critical constructions of power. By challenging modern assumptions about Cassian’s asceticism, Sites of the Ascetic Self contributes to questions of ethics, subjectivity, and agency in the study of religion today.
Author |
: Richard Damian Finn |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2009-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521862813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521862817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World by : Richard Damian Finn
Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity -- Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism -- Christian asceticism before Origen -- Origen and his ascetic legacy -- Cavemen, cenobites, and clerics.
Author |
: Carl Olson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190225315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190225319 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indian Asceticism by : Carl Olson
Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic. Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.
Author |
: Robin Darling Young |
Publisher |
: CUA Press |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2011-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813217321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813217326 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Train His Soul in Books by : Robin Darling Young
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.
Author |
: Inbar Graiver |
Publisher |
: Studies and Texts |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2021-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 088844429X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780888444295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Asceticism of the Mind by : Inbar Graiver
This study explores the strategies used by Christian ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity, drawing on contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific research to underscore the beneficial potential and self-formative role of the monastic system of mental training, confuting older views that emphasized the negative and repressive aspects of asceticism. At the same time, it sheds new light on the challenges that ascetics encountered in their attempts to transform themselves, lending insight into aspects of their daily lives. The use of both historical and cognitive perspectives allows Asceticism of the Mind to open new ways of exploring asceticism and Christian monasticism.
Author |
: Leif E. Vaage |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 457 |
Release |
: 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135962241 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135962243 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asceticism and the New Testament by : Leif E. Vaage
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.