Search Results - "ascetic"

The uses of paradox religion, self-transformation, and the absurd / by Bagger, Matthew C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Paradox without piety -- Credo quia absurdum : cognitive asceticism and Kierkegaard -- Mystics and ascetics -- Absolute transcendence -- Skepticism and mysticism.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The uses of paradox religion, self-transformation, and the absurd / by Bagger, Matthew C.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Paradox without piety -- Credo quia absurdum : cognitive asceticism and Kierkegaard -- Mystics and ascetics -- Absolute transcendence -- Skepticism and mysticism.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Holy bishops in late antiquity the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition / by Rapp, Claudia

Table of Contents: “…The nature of leadership in late antiquity -- Pragmatic authority -- Spiritual authority -- Ascetic authority -- Bishops in action -- Social contexts -- Cities -- Empire -- The bishop as a new urban functionary.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Holy bishops in late antiquity the nature of Christian leadership in an age of transition / by Rapp, Claudia

Table of Contents: “…The nature of leadership in late antiquity -- Pragmatic authority -- Spiritual authority -- Ascetic authority -- Bishops in action -- Social contexts -- Cities -- Empire -- The bishop as a new urban functionary.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The letters of Jerome asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / by Cain, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'The voice of one calling in the desert' -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized 'saint' -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The letters of Jerome asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / by Cain, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'The voice of one calling in the desert' -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized 'saint' -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century a genealogy of modernity / by Hundert, Gershon David, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- The popularization of kabbalah -- Mystic ascetics and religious radicals -- The contexts of Hasidism -- Hasidism, a new path -- Jews and the Sejm.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century a genealogy of modernity / by Hundert, Gershon David, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- The popularization of kabbalah -- Mystic ascetics and religious radicals -- The contexts of Hasidism -- Hasidism, a new path -- Jews and the Sejm.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Syriac idiosyncrasies theology and hermeneutics in early Syriac literature / by Ruzer, Serge

Table of Contents: “…Aphrahat : a witness of pre-Nicene Syrian theology -- Ephrem on justice, free will and divine mercy in the story of the Fall -- Liber graduum : the heavenly garden of ascetic delights -- The cave of treasures : calvary versus earthly paradise -- Philoxenus of Mabbug : hermeneutics of incarnation -- Appendix : the old Syriac gospels : textual authority and hermeneutics.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Syriac idiosyncrasies theology and hermeneutics in early Syriac literature / by Ruzer, Serge

Table of Contents: “…Aphrahat : a witness of pre-Nicene Syrian theology -- Ephrem on justice, free will and divine mercy in the story of the Fall -- Liber graduum : the heavenly garden of ascetic delights -- The cave of treasures : calvary versus earthly paradise -- Philoxenus of Mabbug : hermeneutics of incarnation -- Appendix : the old Syriac gospels : textual authority and hermeneutics.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Language, eros, being kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination / by Wolfson, Elliot R.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : timeswerve/hermeneutic reversibility -- Showing the saying : laying interpretative ground -- Differentiating (in)difference : heresy, gender, and Kabbalah study -- Phallomorphic exposure : concealing soteric esotericism -- Male androgyne : engendering e/masculation -- Flesh become word : textual embodiment and poetic incarnation -- Envisioning eros : poiesis and heeding silence -- Eunuchs who keep Sabbath: erotic asceticism/ascetic eroticism -- Coming-to-head, returning-to-womb: (e)soteric gnosis and overcoming gender dimorphism.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Language, eros, being kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination / by Wolfson, Elliot R.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : timeswerve/hermeneutic reversibility -- Showing the saying : laying interpretative ground -- Differentiating (in)difference : heresy, gender, and Kabbalah study -- Phallomorphic exposure : concealing soteric esotericism -- Male androgyne : engendering e/masculation -- Flesh become word : textual embodiment and poetic incarnation -- Envisioning eros : poiesis and heeding silence -- Eunuchs who keep Sabbath: erotic asceticism/ascetic eroticism -- Coming-to-head, returning-to-womb: (e)soteric gnosis and overcoming gender dimorphism.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Anorexia nervosa a multi-disciplinary approach : from biology to philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Sultana -- Nietzsche's ascetic ideal and the anorexic condition / T. Walsh.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Anorexia nervosa a multi-disciplinary approach : from biology to philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Sultana -- Nietzsche's ascetic ideal and the anorexic condition / T. Walsh.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Sorensen -- PAST -- A Retrospection of Climate Changes and their Impacts in Chinese History / Ts'ui-jung Liu -- Manipulating the Yellow River and the State Formation of theNorthern Song Dynasty / Ling Zhang -- PRESENT -- Water Diversion Between Official Rhetoric and the Drive to Dominate Nature / Miriam Seeger -- Chinese Environmental Movements : Civil Society Discourses on Climate Change and Environmental Protection / Nora Sausmikat -- "From Worse to Better" : Anti-Desertification Policies on the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Decades / Carmen Meinert & Christian Gudehus -- From Ascetic to Activist : Jiyul Sunim's Korean Buddhist Eco movement / Eunsu Cho -- PROSPECTS -- Killing Three Birds with One Stone : Possibilities of Achieving Environmental Success in Conforming Societies : What Japanese Experiences May Suggest to China / Takashi Kanatsu -- Environmental Think Tanks in Japan and South Korea : Trailblazers or Vicarious Agents? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Nature, environment and culture in East Asia the challenge of climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Sorensen -- PAST -- A Retrospection of Climate Changes and their Impacts in Chinese History / Ts'ui-jung Liu -- Manipulating the Yellow River and the State Formation of theNorthern Song Dynasty / Ling Zhang -- PRESENT -- Water Diversion Between Official Rhetoric and the Drive to Dominate Nature / Miriam Seeger -- Chinese Environmental Movements : Civil Society Discourses on Climate Change and Environmental Protection / Nora Sausmikat -- "From Worse to Better" : Anti-Desertification Policies on the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Decades / Carmen Meinert & Christian Gudehus -- From Ascetic to Activist : Jiyul Sunim's Korean Buddhist Eco movement / Eunsu Cho -- PROSPECTS -- Killing Three Birds with One Stone : Possibilities of Achieving Environmental Success in Conforming Societies : What Japanese Experiences May Suggest to China / Takashi Kanatsu -- Environmental Think Tanks in Japan and South Korea : Trailblazers or Vicarious Agents? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Ardea: A Philosophical Novella / by Mathews, Freya

Full text available:

Ardea: A Philosophical Novella / by Mathews, Freya

Full text available:

History in the comic mode medieval communities and the matter of person /

Table of Contents: “…Frazier -- Low country ascetics and oriental luxury : Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the treasures of Oignies / Sharon Farmer -- Crystalline wombs and pregnant hearts : the exuberant bodies of the Katharinenthal Visitation Group / Jacqueline E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

History in the comic mode medieval communities and the matter of person /

Table of Contents: “…Frazier -- Low country ascetics and oriental luxury : Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the treasures of Oignies / Sharon Farmer -- Crystalline wombs and pregnant hearts : the exuberant bodies of the Katharinenthal Visitation Group / Jacqueline E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view