Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World

ISBN-13: 9780521681544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 196 str.

Richard Finn

Opis

Presents the first combined study of ancient ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately.

Recenzje

'… an invaluable introductory work … Finn successfully presents the multitude of practices and beliefs composing the larger ascetic traditions of the Greco-Roman world that Christian asceticism was constructed with and at times constructed against.' The Expository Times

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity; 3. Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism; 4. Christian asceticism before Origen; 5. Origen and his ascetic legacy; 6. Cavemen, cenobites, and clerics; 7. Conclusion.