Sites of the ascetic self : John Cassian and Christian ethical formation /

"Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of fifth-century ascetic, John Cassian (ca. 360-ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to est...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clements, Niki Kasumi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]
Temas:
Cassian, John, > approximately 360-approximately 435.
Asceticism.
Christian ethics.
Ascétisme.
asceticism.
RELIGION / Ethics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I: Constructions of Ethics in Asceticism
  • 1. Forms of agency and ways of life
  • 2. Cassian the sthicist
  • 3. Cassian on human effort
  • PART II: Practices of Ascetic Formation
  • 4. Bodily practices
  • 5. Affective practices
  • 6. Communal practices
  • Conclusion.

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