The New Asceticism
by Sarah Coakley /
2016 / English / EPUB
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Each chapter of
Each chapter ofThe New Asceticism
The New Asceticism concentrates on a
contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in
the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the
future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the
nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds.
Professor Coakley is as familiar with the Bible and the Early
Fathers as she is with the writings of Freud and Jung, and she
draws heavily on Gregory of Nyssa's theology of desire in what she
proposes. She points the way through the false modern alternatives
of repression and libertinism, agape and eros, recovering a way in
which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and
disorder, and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the
disciplines of prayer and attention.
concentrates on a
contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in
the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the
future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the
nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds.
Professor Coakley is as familiar with the Bible and the Early
Fathers as she is with the writings of Freud and Jung, and she
draws heavily on Gregory of Nyssa's theology of desire in what she
proposes. She points the way through the false modern alternatives
of repression and libertinism, agape and eros, recovering a way in
which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and
disorder, and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the
disciplines of prayer and attention.