Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : cognition and discipline /

In Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity, Paul C. Dilley explores the personal practices and group rituals through which the thoughts of monastic disciples were monitored and trained to purify the mind and help them achieve salvation. Dilley draws widely on the interdiscipli...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dilley, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
30-600
Monastic and religious life > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Vie religieuse et monastique > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
Monastic and religious life > Early church
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Evaluating postulants
  • Discerning motivation I: status and vocation
  • Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment
  • Cognitive disciplines
  • Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart
  • Learning the fear of God
  • Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation
  • Collective heart-work
  • The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration
  • Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance.

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