Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World (Key Themes in Ancient History) By Richard Finn Op
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2009-07-31 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 0521681545 | PDF | 1.1 MB
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and Manichees. Richard Finn presents for the first time a combined study of the major ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately...