RT Article
T1 Asceticism versus Militarism in the Middle Ages
JF Church history
VO 5
SP 3
OP 28
A1 McNeill, John Thomas 1885-1975
LA English
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1936
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/596365918
AB The terms “religion” and “asceticism” represent separable realms of experience. Asceticism may occur where a Stoic philosopher, from purely ethical considerations, denies all indulgence to the appetites of the body, that “gaol and shackle of the soul.” It is today employed, in Egypt and in India, in the strategy of political causes. The athlete or the actor, the scholar or the merchant, may adopt an ascetic type of behavior for the sake of efficiency on a non-religious level. On the other hand feasting may be as religious as fasting, jubilation as holy as penance.
K1 Militia Christi
K1 Mittelalter
K1 Middle Ages