Dying to Self and Detachment. By James Kellenberger
This is an elegant and sophisticated exploration of what is involved in the religious demand that we die to self and what might be implied by the related virtue of detachment. The perspective is somewhere between that of comparative religion and philosophy. Kellenberg takes as his paradigms of what...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 382-383 |
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| Summary: | This is an elegant and sophisticated exploration of what is involved in the religious demand that we die to self and what might be implied by the related virtue of detachment. The perspective is somewhere between that of comparative religion and philosophy. Kellenberg takes as his paradigms of what it means to die to self and to live with detachment the figures of Jesus Christ and the Buddha. He also introduces a number of examplars whose lives and writings reveal aspects of these themes. The most significant of these are Meister Eckhart and Teresa of Avila, though he also cites more recent examples: Søren Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, and Mahatma Gandhi. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu008 |