| Author | : Leif E. Vaage |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1135962243 |
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Asceticism and the New Testament
| Author | : Leif E. Vaage |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1135962235 |
As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the orientation and practices, the power dynamics and politics with transcendental religions. The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. 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. Looking at the New Testament from an ascetic perspective asks questions about issues including the milieu of Jesus and Paul, and the social practices of self-denial, and considers the Scriptural texts in light of a desire to separate oneself from the world. In interpreting all the books in the New Testament, this collection is the first effort to take seriously the crucial role played by asceticism--and its detractors--in the formation of the New Testament.
Western Asceticism
| Author | : Owen Chadwick |
| Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1881 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
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...
Reading Renunciation
| Author | : Elizabeth A. Clark |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 1999-07-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1400823188 |
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.
The Wandering Holy Man
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : University of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2020-06-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520304144 |
Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma—a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East—had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the text from different angles and contexts. This is the authoritative source on this influential figure in the history of the church and his life, travels, and relations with other religious groups.
To Train His Soul in Books
| Author | : Robin Darling Young |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2011-08-31 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0813217326 |
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.
The New Asceticism
| Author | : Sarah Coakley |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 161 |
| Release | : 2015-11-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441162240 |
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.
The Struggle for Virtue
| Author | : Archbishop Averky (Taushev) |
| Publisher | : Holy Trinity Publications |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2014-09-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0884653749 |
Archbishop Averky addresses head on the question, "What is asceticism?" He counters the many false understandings that exist and shows that the practice of authentic asceticism is integral to the spiritual life and the path to blessed communion with God.
Ascetic Eucharists
| Author | : Andrew McGowan |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1999-05-20 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0191544345 |
The early Eucharist has usually been seen as sacramental eating of token bread and wine in careful or even slavish imitation of Jesus and his earliest disciples. In fact the evidence suggests great diversity in its conduct, including the use of foods, in the first few hundred years. Eucharistic meals involving cheese, milk, salt, oil, and vegetables are attested, and some have argued that even fish was used. The most significant exception to using bread and wine, however, was a `bread-and-water' Christian meal, an ancient ascetic form of the Eucharist. This tradition also involved rejection of meat from general diet, and reflected the concern of dissident communities to avoid the cuisine - meat and wine - characteristic of pagan sacrifice. This study describes and discusses these practices fully for the first time, and provides important new insights into the liturgical and social history of early Christianity.
