The Ascetic Self By Gavin Flood university Of Stirling (Hardback)

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A new approach to comparing religions Christianity Buddhism and Hinduism focusing on traditions of asceticism More

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Offers a context for understanding the prolific fourth-century Christian theologian John Chrysostom and the religious and social world in which he lived This book analyzes two highly rhetorical treatises by this early church father attacking the... More

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Ascetic Culture honours Philip Rousseau's pathbreaking work on early Christian asceticism in a series of essays exploring how quickly the industrious and imaginative practitioners of asceticism from the early fourth through the mid-fifth century... More

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This eagerly awaited book by David F Ford makes a unique and important contribution to the debate about the Christian doctrine of salvation Using the pivotal image of the face Professor Ford offers a constructive and contemporary account of the self... More

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Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language More

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Compares the Christian efforts aimed toward European Jews and toward indigenous people of the New World focusing on the intersection of colonial expansion with the Inquisition and adding significant nuance to the question of the colonial encounter This... More

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In the Self's Place is a phenomenological reading of Augustine that engages with modern and postmodern analyses of Augustinian philosophy More

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An analysis of a variety of early Islamic texts to understand the creation and identity of early martyres and ascetics More

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Pilgrims during the fourth and fifth centuries AD often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land This is a study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics More

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Drawing on biographical historical literary and theological scholarship this book considers the alternating roles of aggression and self-effacement in Newman's own personality and writing - More

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This work sifts the evidence surrounding the very difficult personality of Ambrose of Milan It reinterprets Ambrose's actions and writings to penetrate the Bishop's presentation of self It also succeeds in revealing his manipulation of events without... More

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What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves between aloneness and interconnection Constance M Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a... More

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This text tells the tragic story of the 18 missionaries from Oberlin College Ohio and the Chinese Christians who were all killed during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 Caught up in a clash of cultures the missionaries were self-righteous and offensive... More

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Henry of Avranches professional versifier to abbots bishops kings and a pope displays pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals the Carmina Burana and collections of rhymed secular verse Yet The Saints' Lives also stands as self-conscious... More

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Henry of Avranches professional versifier to abbots bishops kings and a pope displays pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals the Carmina Burana and collections of rhymed secular verse Yet The Saints' Lives also stands as self-conscious... More