Sites of the ascetic self : John Cassian and Christian ethical formation /
"Sites of the Ascetic Self reconsiders contemporary debates about ethics and subjectivity in an extended engagement with the works of fifth-century ascetic, John Cassian (ca. 360-ca. 435), whose stories of extreme asceticism and transformative religious experience by desert elders helped to est...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2020]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780268107888 0268107882 9780268107871 0268107874 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- PART I: Constructions of Ethics in Asceticism
- 1. Forms of agency and ways of life
- 2. Cassian the sthicist
- 3. Cassian on human effort
- PART II: Practices of Ascetic Formation
- 4. Bodily practices
- 5. Affective practices
- 6. Communal practices
- Conclusion.