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Asceticism of the Mind
Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism
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CA$37.50
ISBN: 9780888444295
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
This study explores the strategies used by Christian ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity, drawing on contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific research to underscore the beneficial potential and self-formative role of the monastic system of mental training, confuting older views that emphasized the negative and repressive aspects of asceticism. At the same time, it sheds new light on the challenges that ascetics encountered in their attempts to transform themselves, lending insight into aspects of their daily lives. The use of both historical and cognitive perspectives allows Asceticism of the Mind to open new ways of exploring asceticism and Christian monasticism.
Asceticism of the Mind
Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism
Price:
CA$80.00
ISBN: 9780888442130
Pub Date: September 2018
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Asceticism is founded on the possibility that human beings can profoundly transform themselves through training and discipline. In particular, asceticism in the Eastern monastic tradition is based on...
Asceticism of the Mind
Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism
Price:
CA$37.50
ISBN: 9780888444295
Pub Date: November 2021
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
This study explores the strategies used by Christian ascetics in the Egyptian, Gazan, and Sinaitic monastic traditions of late antiquity, drawing on contemporary cognitive and neuroscientific research to underscore the beneficial potential and self-formative role of the monastic system of mental training, confuting older views that emphasized the negative and repressive aspects of asceticism. At the same time, it sheds new light on the challenges that ascetics encountered in their attempts to transform themselves, lending insight into aspects of their daily lives. The use of both historical and cognitive perspectives allows Asceticism of the Mind to open new ways of exploring asceticism and Christian monasticism.
Asceticism of the Mind
Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism
Price:
CA$80.00
ISBN: 9780888442130
Pub Date: September 2018
Imprint: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Asceticism is founded on the possibility that human beings can profoundly transform themselves through training and discipline. In particular, asceticism in the Eastern monastic tradition is based on...