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Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman world /
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and Manichees. Richard Finn presents for the first time a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Key themes in ancient history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.