The Ascetic Measure: A New Category for the Philosophical Analysis of Self-Inflicted Pain as an Expression of Love for God
The paper identifies the measure of pain monastic Christian ascetics in medieval central Europe inflicted on themselves to express the right measure of love for God. I ask whether the measure of pain had significance; whether a ratio existed between the measure of pain ascetics experienced and the m...
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Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 2 |
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B love for God B Pain B Philosophy of religion B monastic ascetics B Blood |
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