Asceticism In The Graeco Roman World
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Author | : Richard Damian Finn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2009-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521862817 |
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.
Author | : Richard Finn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2009-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139480669 |
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 combined study of the major ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately. He examines how people abstained from food, drink, sexual relations, sleep, and wealth; what they meant by their behaviour; and how they influenced others in the Graeco-Roman world. Against this background, the book charts the rise of monasticism in Egypt, Asia Minor, Syria, and North Africa, assessing the crucial role played by the third-century exegete, Origen, and asks why monasticism developed so variously in different regions.
Author | : Richard Damian Finn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780511651229 |
Presents the first combined study of ancient ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately.
Author | : Nathaniel P. DesRosiers |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2016-08-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0884141578 |
Essays that broaden the historical scope and sharpen the parameters of competitive discourses Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The specific focus of the volume is the examination of cultural producers and their particular viewpoints and agendas in an attempt to shed new light on the religious thinkers, texts, and material remains of late antiquity. The essays explore the major creative movements of the era, examining the strategies used to develop and designate orthodoxies and orthopraxies. This collection of essays reinterprets dialogues between individuals and groups, illuminating the mutual competition and influence among these ancient thinkers and communities. Features: Essays feature competitive discourse as the central organizing theme Articles present unique theoretical models that are adaptable to different contexts and highly applicable to religious discourses before and after the Late Antique Period Scholars cover a much wider range of traditions including Judaism, Christianity, paganism, and philosophy in order to provide the most complete portrait of the religious landscape
Author | : Thorsten Fögen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110201119 |
This volume presents a wide range of contributions that analyse the cultural, sociological and communicative significance of tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity. The papers cover the time from the eighth century BCE until late antiquity and take into account a broad variety of literary genres such as epic, tragedy, historiography, elegy, philosophical texts, epigram and the novel. The collection also contains two papers from modern socio-psychology.
Author | : Joseph Ward Swain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Asceticism |
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Author | : Vincent L. Wimbush |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780800631055 |
In presenting a selection of twenty-eight texts in translation with introductory essays, Vincent L. Wimbush and his co-authors have produced the first book on asceticism that does full justice to the varieties of ascetic behavior in the Greco-Roman world. The texts, representative of different religious cults, philosophical schools, and geographical locations, are organized by literary genre into five parts that give a fascinating overview of the ascetic tradition.
Author | : Judith Lieu |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199291427 |
'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.
Author | : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108494900 |
A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
Author | : Peter J. Woodford |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022653992X |
What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? The Moral Meaning of Nature sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an earlier—and unjustly neglected—discussion of Darwin in late nineteenth-century Germany. We start with Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings staged one of the first confrontations with the Christian tradition using the resources of Darwinian thought. The lebensphilosophie, or “life-philosophy,” that arose from his engagement with evolutionary ideas drew responses from other influential thinkers, including Franz Overbeck, Georg Simmel, and Heinrich Rickert. These critics all offered cogent challenges to Nietzsche’s appropriation of the newly transforming biological sciences, his negotiation between science and religion, and his interpretation of the implications of Darwinian thought. They also each proposed alternative ways of making sense of Nietzsche’s unique question concerning the meaning of biological evolution “for life.” At the heart of the discussion were debates about the relation of facts and values, the place of divine purpose in the understanding of nonhuman and human agency, the concept of life, and the question of whether the sciences could offer resources to satisfy the human urge to discover sources of value in biological processes. The Moral Meaning of Nature focuses on the historical background of these questions, exposing the complex ways in which they recur in contemporary philosophical debate.