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Beyond Virtue Ethics : A Contemporary Ethic of Ancient Spiritual Struggle /
"This book develops a contemporary model of spiritual struggle aimed at perpetual ascent to and in God. Spiritual struggle in this project, which ultimately shifts the emphasis from virtue's acquisition to its pursuit, is defined as the exertion of effort in all conceivable dimensions-phys...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Ethics, Anthropology, and Patristics
- Which Virtue Ethics? Which Problems?
- A Case for Spiritual Struggle
- Onward and Upward : The Perpetual Godwardness of Spiritual Struggle
- Asceticism as Godward Spiritual Struggle Applied to the Body
- Sacred Reading as Godward Spiritual Struggle Applied to Scripture
- Conclusion: Embodied Ethics and Inevitable Tensions