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| | Asceticism / Otherworldliness |
 | | As asceticism is useful to the empowerment of religion, religion is stimulus for humanity. | | | Asceticism is a natural empowering process of life. | | | The ascetic's means of rebellion have been undermined; for to heed his natural impulses, would be to resist his religion. |
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http://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/philosophy/COURSES/NIETNET/ASCETIC.HTM
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| | Asceticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Asceticism is most commonly associated with monks, yogis or priests, however any individual may choose to lead an ascetic life. | | | However, sexual abstinence was merely one aspect of ascetic renunciation. | | | Asceticism within Christian tradition is the set of disciplines practiced to work out the believer's salvation and further the believer's repentance - as well as for the purpose of spiritual enlightenment. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asceticism |
| | They were ascetics who practised the loftiest virtue, who were adorned with remarkable spiritual gifts, and consecrated themselves to the service of God and their fellow-men. | | | Moreover although asceticism is generally associated with the objectionable features of religion, and is regarded by some as one of them, it may be and is practised by those who affect to be swayed by no religious motives whatever. | | | The ascetical practices of the Buddhists are monastic in their character, the devotees living in communities, whereas the Brahmins are mostly solitaries, though admitting pupils. |
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| | Asceticism in its broadest sense is man's practice of renunciation of his physical self and world in order to attain a higher ideal or spiritual good; in summary, it's the renunciation of the physical, which has been deemed of lesser worth, for the spiritual. | | | The earliest exponents of asceticism were the Jain Buddhists whose religious teachings influenced the Essenes. | | | ascetic of the other-worldly spirit that proclaims itself superior to the whole natural world, or than the mysticism that renounces the self only to commune with God himself." True humility is the desire to unite with and be within the whole of things but not above it. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ascetical Theology |
| | Ascetics proves the necessity of prayer (2 Corinthians 3:5) and teaches the mode of praying with spiritual profit; it justifies vocal prayers and teaches the art of meditating according to the various methods of St. Peter of Alcantara, of St. Ignatius, and other saints, especially the "tres modi orandi" of St. Ignatius. | | | Christian ascetics must not overlook the Blessed Mother of God; for she is, after Christ, our most sublime ideal. | | | Ascetics encourages visits to the Blessed Sacrament (visitatio sanctissimi), a practice meant especially to nourish and strengthen the divine virtues of faith, hope, and charity. |
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| | asceticism on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Asceticism has been common in most major world religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: all of these have special ascetic cults or ascetic ideals. | | | ASCETICISM [asceticism], rejection of bodily pleasures through sustained self-denial and self-mortification, with the objective of strengthening spiritual life. | | | Asceticism has been associated with taboo in many non-Western societies and in such well-developed religions as Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. |
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| | almanac new middle ages |
| | The ascetics (zuhhad, nussak) of the eighth century AD are widely regarded as forebears to the Sufis of the later ninth century and after. | | | asceticism in this sense, Sufism of Islamic mysticism. | | | Tawakkul ("dependence [on God]") came to be practiced with such recklessness as for ascetics to set off on journeys across the desert without carrying food or water, expecting to be sustained accidentally; that is, by divine provision alone. |
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http://novusmedioaevo.blogspot.com/2005/08/islamic-asceticism.html
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| | ASCETICISM - LoveToKnow Article on ASCETICISM |
| | The ascetic instinct hu probably as old as humanity, yet we must not forget that early fit ~, many things being esteemed holy that are from a modern sp mt of view trifling and even obscene. | | | It was rather of the nature the savage taboo (q.v.), the outcome of toternistic beliefs or a)de of averting the contaminating presence of djinns and mons. | | | They were penitents, and no doubt imbued th the ancient belief that without the shedding of blood there no remission of sins. |
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| | This extremely broad notion of asceticism complements the broad definition of religion made in my introductory essay on religion. | | | Religion in action is ascetic inasmuch as it is organized, disciplined and oriented toward a goal or toward following a traditional "Way." All asceticism is not considered to be religious, though Nietzsche's "third essay" of the Genealogy of Morals argues that it is essentially and practically identical to religion. | | | This is not usually considered a form of asceticism, but anyone who has raised children can tell you that it is definitely an exercise in asceticism. |
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http://home.minneapolis.edu/~witwerda/religions/Notes/asceticism.htm
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| | Contraception Under Cover of Asceticism |
| | Asceticism is not an end in itself, it is but a means: its goal is to dispose the faithful to respect and carry out God's will, even when this costs a personal effort or sacrifice. | | | With this pseudo "asceticism" of "natural methods" of birth control, we are facing the full-fledged error of "personalism," an error which, contradicting the traditional doctrine of the Church, places the primary end of marriage in the personal satisfaction and development in the couple's mutual love. | | | It is by these means of illusion and lies that the "ascetics" of "natural methods" shirk and teach others' to shirk that total self-denial required in raising a large family, if such be God's will, with all of the sacrifices (including the economic ones) involved. |
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http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/SiSiNoNo/1998_July/Contraception.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Asceticism |
| | Asceticism (Greek askesis, “exercise”), practice of self-denial and renunciation of worldly pleasure in order to attain a higher degree of... | | | area inhabited by Hindu ascetics, attitude of Buddha toward Hindu Asceticism (1), attitude of Buddha toward Hindu Asceticism (2) |
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| | asceticism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The proponents of an ascetic theology demanded exclusiveness of devotion by faithful Christians to Christ and deduced from it the demand of celibacy. | | | This is found in arguments for the monastic life and in the Roman Catholic view of the priesthood. | | | They wanted, instead, a religion of inner experience, an asceticism that renounced the luxuries of the world and devoted itself purely to obedience to God. |
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| | Not all readers will be persuaded that asceticism is indeed the "key" to the second century, and many will find that F. neither provides an adequate definition of ascetic practice nor succeeds in demonstrating the relevance of asceticism to all of the historical figures he discusses. | | | The concluding chapter, "Ascetics and Holy Men: Conflict, Change, and Continuity," sums up the argument that the second century was "a watershed in the history of asceticism in antiquity" (p. | | | Peregrinus and "the Jewish carpenter crucified as an insurrectionist" (xiii) are presented as radical deviants, but F. does not dwell upon their "virtues." Since the book concentrates not upon the dissenters themselves but upon the lifestyles and world views advocated by their critics (which as F. asserts on p. |
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| | Renewal and Asceticism |
| | Asceticism, as we Orthodox Christians understand it, acknowledges that there is a state of constant warfare raging in the life of the individual between good and evil. | | | We apply the principles of asceticism not because asceticism brings salvation, but that we may become one with God and to fulfill the supplication of our Lord who prayed, "That they all may be one as thou Father are in me and I in Thee, that they also may be one in us," (John 17:21). | | | We crown our ascetic lives by attending Church and functioning as a part of the family of God, by receiving the sacraments because Holy Communion and Penance are Life for the Soul and we pray always so that we can get connected to God. |
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http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/sermons/meena_renewal_asceticism.htm
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| | Living an Orthodox Life: Ascetic Struggle |
| | The Ascetic Podvig of Living in the World, by Archbishop Laurus. | | | But this can only be achieved by an ascetic priest. | | | This article especially treats the issue of asceticism in Eastern religions. |
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http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/pr_ascetic.aspx
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| | Toward a New Asceticism |
| | Asceticism is an effective tool for weaving into one’s daily existence the life of Jesus Christ, which is given not only to souls but to embodied human beings. | | | Historic authors were unanimous in insisting that Christian asceticism is for the purpose of ordering one’s life, in all aspects of daily thought and activity, toward the new life which has become available to human beings in Jesus Christ. | | | In Christian tradition, the most consistently emphasized ascetic practice which meets the requirements for a new asceticism is fasting. |
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Christian Asceticism: Breaking Consumerism's Destructive Hold |
| | These behaviors are the spiritual disciplines which comprise Christian asceticism and include a great variety of concrete means by which Christians throughout the centuries have put into practice their new life in Christ. | | | Like the self-emptying of Christ on the Cross in which it participates, asceticism is a scandal and a folly to the world. | | | Although I am not an academic theologian or social theorist, my training in theology and pastoral experience suggest to me that it is becoming imperative for the Church to develop a concrete response to the spiritual and temporal danger that is spreading. |
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| | Aumann: Asceticism and the Christian Life |
| | Both the monks or hermits and the consecrated virgins were considered to be "ascetics"; that is, they were persons dedicated to a lifestyle that was inspired and regulated by the Gospel. | | | Throughout the history of the Church the consecrated life has taken various forms, but generally it always preserved the practices of asceticism with a view to growth in holiness. | | | At the same time there was an increasing number of women who embraced the life of consecrated virginity but remained in the city and in their own homes. |
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| | Asceticism and Renunciation |
| | What one gains by asceticism one gains also by renunciation, that is to say, the freedom from Ignorance, equanimity, power, delight, union with Sri Krishna. | | | Great and magnanimous Buddhism has done no doubt immense good to the country, yet no less harm, because of asceticism spreading everywhere and the warrior class (Kshatriya) renouncing their appointed function; and in the end, itself was banished from the country. | | | When such souls with an inborn yogic urge begin to increase in number and by contagion to spread among the youthful generation a strong movement to asceticism, the doors are opened indeed for the good of the country, in one sense; but also along with the good there arise causes for apprehension. |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.10.7 |
| | On the ambiguity of the role of the body in Platonic asceticism, whether it is a prison or a guard post, Corrington-Streete sees some help coming from Tibetan Buddhism's view of asceticism not so much as world denying but as world controlling. | | | Things left unexplored or underexplored in these three papers, according to Shaw, are the relationship of texts to the appropriation of ascetic practice in society and culture, the role of status enhancement or diminution in ascetic renunciation, and the usefulness of a distinction between asceticism and mysticism. | | | Of Thurman she asks whether the relationship between body and world in Tibetan Buddhism is really similar to that of the Platonist or Christian. |
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| | Journal of Religion and Society |
| | The frequent presence of "competing asceticisms" in early Christian communities provides evidence and justification for the "new" theories of asceticism and their appropriation by students of the Bible. | | | While such a description liberates asceticism from the narrowly defined praxis and motivations of desert monasticism in the fourth and fifth centuries (a paradigm that seems to dominate much Christian interpretation of the phenomenon), it nevertheless is so broad and abstract that it allows for a host of new categories. | | | Withdrawal from the world, purification, renunciation, and suffering are associated in Mark with burdens that must be willingly embraced and endured by those who choose to follow Christ. |
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| | The Righteous Asceticism |
| | But his saying "they innovated it", is precisely what I have already explained in the beginning of this article—in the sense that the ascetic movement did not descend as a Divine inspiration in the Bible, but rather that humans, after acquiring a divine inspiration, ‘innovated it' in the hope of the Divine contentment. | | | I implore God, that every day may become a feast for the Muslim—and that the Lord God may offer unto them all glory and honour, and bestow unto them His rich kindness and mercifulness, that this land and the paradise afterward, may become their good habitation. | | | Even in the western Church itself, where the priests are celibate, it is also based upon a patristic benefit, in their understanding, and has no association with the dogma. |
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| | Subaltern Sadhus? - William Pinch |
| | His ambiguous asceticism was a tool he deployed to full advantage; whenever he was between a rock and a hard place, he would offer to abandon all his wealth and weapons and retire to his "home" near Kanpur on the Ganges and engage in prayer and meditation. | | | Situated historically between the Tulsidas Manas and the Valmiki Ramayana is a third portrayal of the political ascetic that both speaks to the remembered ideal of the armed ascetic evoked in Valmiki's verse and is linked to the full-blown martial asceticism of the later medieval period. | | | Tulsi's commentary is most revealing: "The more the ascetic spoke of his detachment, the greater grew the king's belief in him. |
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| | Religious cults and sects, doctrines and practices - Asceticism |
| | The Corinthian ascetics think that spirituality is antithetical to the enjoyment of sex within marriage. | | | The view that the physical body is evil and detrimental to a holy life and that only through renunciation of the world can one reach a higher spiritual state. | | | Hardly any religion has been without at least traces or some features of asceticism. |
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| | Asceticism, whether Christian, Qumran, Buddhist or other, escorts ethics out of the classroom and puts it to work for real people. | | | The ascetic tradition spread from east to west. | | | In Fourth Century Egypt the Desert Fathers developed and passed to us a Christian practice which we call Christian “asceticism.” It is methodical self-control, self-discipline and self-denial in the name of a higher calling. |
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| | Touchstone Archives: Between Heaven & Earth |
| | This desire for the silence in which we hear God is the genesis of asceticism. | | | The icon, in the words of a modern Orthodox writer, “is the Christ, the God who became a face.” Additionally, the icon is the face of all the friends of God who are our friends, too, and wish to include us in the circle of saints. | | | The demon Screwtape knows that it is a lie (no doubt first told by his side) that asceticism means diluted or minimized pleasure, as though sin affords a more robust variety of pleasure than virtue. |
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| | E. Belfort Bax: Socialism and Asceticism (1905) |
| | But, while the main argument in the present-day is a medico-scientific one, the old idea of the intrinsic goodness of asceticism and the duty of practising it for its own sake, inevitably peeps out in, say, the exhortations of anti-alcoholic fanatics and others. | | | But now that the theological side of religion is beginning to pale its ineffectual fire, there is a tendency for asceticism to accrete itself on to medical science. | | | The “man in the street” asks not the reason why, but blindly follows the tradition he has partly inherited and partly acquired, that asceticism is part of the highest ideal to which human nature can attain. |
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| | The Jewish Ethicist: Asceticism |
| | The deeper answer is that true enjoyment and appreciation of the wonders of this world is possible only when we have a profound awareness of the spiritual source of these wonders. | | | And we can find many other examples of individuals who were praised for their ascetic habits. | | | Because he lived a life of withdrawal, subsisting on a measure of breadfruit, the rest of the world merited plentiful sustenance with a vital connection to its Divine source. |
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| | Peter Occhiogrosso - Religious Art |
| | The goal was the same as it was for the Kabbalists: devekut, or mystical union, and the Baal Shem Tov, an ecstatic mystic whose devotional approach fed the people's need for an emotional, love-based religion, taught that any act performed with mystical union in mind would lead to ecstasy. | | | This 2nd century AD stone sculpture from Gandhara in northwestern India shows the Buddha at the height of his ascetical phase, an unusual subject for depiction, and remarkably naturalistic compared to other, more ethereal Buddhas. | | | Like many great mystics before them, the Hasidim found God in the most mundane activities and practiced physical worship, praising God not, like many religious Jews of the time including the Kabbalists, through prayer and asceticism but in presumably profane activities such as eating, sleeping, dancing, and making love. |
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| | Asceticism Self-Denial Fasting Questia.com Online Library |
| | Saomnyasa Upaniosads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation | | | Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities | | | Other- and Inner-Worldly Asceticism in Medieval Waldensianism: A Weberian Analysis, in Sociology of Religion |
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| | the manner of life, practices, or principles of an ascetic. |
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| | ORTHODIXIE ... Southern, Orthodox, Convert, Etc.: Asceticism |
| | The limits of the ascetic life should be set by the guidance of a prudent spiritual father. | | | If ascetic discipline is devoid of love and joy in the Lord, it turns into a source of depression, sullenness, and perturbation. | | | Asceticism should be soberly and wisely practiced, not out of grief or pain but in joy and happiness. |
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| | Pearl Publishing House: Asceticism & Virtues |
| | Each one of their answers reflects the spiritual state of the speaker, as well as the prevailing level of perception and understanding of his audience. | | | Inwardly, such blessed servants enjoy illustrious ranks, and outwardly, they exhibit a noble character and magnanimity, along with a gentle disposition, and hence, their ranks are sublime, and their humor is most touching. | | | The learned shaikhs spoke frequently about the inner spiritual realms, and they expounded upon their meanings, boundaries, characteristics, and foundations. |
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| | In most religious traditions some persons, individually or in groups, follow an entirely ascetic way of life; they are called ascetics. | | | It has been an aspect of most religious traditions and of many philosophies, such as Stoicism. | | | It is thought that these practices gradually free a person's spiritual element from the body's demands. |
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| | Ecological asceticism: a cultural revolution |
| | Asceticism has been associated in our minds with a devaluation of matter for the sake of 'higher' and more 'spiritual' things. | | | True, a Platonic influence can be easily observed in the history of Christian tradition, and perhaps in other religions too. | | | This implies a Platonic view of matter and the body, which is not compatible with the Judeo-Christian tradition where the material world is an indispensable part of the human identity itself. |
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| | Cokesbury.com |
| | From meditation and fasting to celibacy and anchoritism, the ascetic impulse has been an enduring and complex phenomenon throughout history. | | | Offering a sweeping view of this elusive and controversial aspect of religious life and culture, Asceticism looks at the ascetic impulse from a unique | | | Asceticism is organized around four major themes that cut across religious traditions: origins and meanings of asceticism, which explores the motivations and impulses behind ascetic behaviors; hermeneutics of asceticism, which looks at texts and rhetorics and their presuppositions; aesthetics of |
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http://www.cokesbury.com/?pid=0195151380
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| | A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Julia F. Saville |
| | The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism in its broadest definition--the refusal of physical pleasure or comfort in the interests of moral or spiritual gain. | | | It also constitutes a map tracing the alternating practices of self-discipline and self-indulgence, self-expression and self-silencing performed by Hopkins's verse. | | | Others decry his monasticism as the regrettably oppressive regimen from which he was able to escape only occasionally through his sensuous, sometimes overtly homoerotic verse. |
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| | Crosswalk.com |
| | Home > Concordances > Nave's Topical Bible > Asceticism |
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| | ASCETICISM ************************************************************************** SCRIPTURE: OLD TESTAMENT ************************************************************************** Tobit 12:8: Prayer with fasting is good, but better than both is almsgiving along with righteousness...For almsgiving saves from death and cleanses away every sin." Sirach 3:30: "Water puts out a blazing fire; and almsgiving atones (exilasetai) for sin. | | | Especially suffering brings forgiveness, makes up for sins. | | | His servants thought he would fast in mourning. |
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| | Asceticism and the New Testament:0415921953:Vaage, Leif E.; Wimbush, Vincent L. :eCampus.com |
| | The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. | | | Addressing each book of the New Testament, an outstanding roster of scholars considers what asceticism may mean within New Testament studies. | | | This major project in New Testament Studies 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. |
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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0415921953&referrer=yah04
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| | Catholic Pages Directory: » Prayers » SPIRITUALITY |
| | Asceticism Fr William Most discusses asceticism as found in the Old Testament, the New Testament and Rabbinic Texts | | | The Nature of Ascetical Theology, its Sources, its Method, its Excellence and Necessity and its Division. | | | Aridity Fr William Most discusses what role of emotions or feelings play in our spiritual lives |
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| | Amazon.ca: Asceticism: Search Results All Products |
| | Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion by Stephen Eskildsen (Author) (Paperback - November 1998) | | | Use Your Account to view or change your orders | | | Female Ascetics in Hinduism by Lynn Teskey Denton (Author) (Paperback - August 2004) |
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| | Sociology of Religion: Other- and inner-worldly asceticism in medieval Waldensianism: a Weberian analysis.@ HighBeam ... |
| | Sociology of Religion: Other- and inner-worldly asceticism in medieval Waldensianism: a Weberian analysis.@ HighBeam Research | | | Building on work by Weber and Troeltsch, this article examines other- and inner-worldly asceticism in Waldensianism, one of the largest heterodox religious movements in the Middle Ages. | | | Based on the exploration of largely primary sources, the article argues that asceticism in early and later Waldensianism was other-worldly and confined to Waldensian itinerant preachers. |
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| | Topics in Philosophy: Asceticism |
| | Writings from the Philokalia : On Prayer of the Heart | | | Ascetic Behavior in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity) by: Vincent Wimbush | | | Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth by: Tito Colliander |
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: asceticism |
| | Its object is the attainment of Christian perfection, the rules and principles of which are formulated and expounded by ascetical theology. |
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