Asceticism versus Militarism in the Middle Ages
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...
| Τόπος έκδοσης: | Church history |
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Cambridge University Press
[1936]
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Church history
Έτος: 1936, Τόμος: 5, Σελίδες: 3-28 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Militia Christi
B Middle Ages B Μεσαίωνας (μοτίβο) |
| Παράλληλη έκδοση: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή
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| Σύνοψη: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0009-6407 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Church history
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