THE NEW ASCETICISM by Sarah Coakley ( 9781441103222 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE NEW ASCETICISM
SEXUALITY, GENDER AND THE QUEST FOR GOD

By:

Sarah Coakley

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1441103228

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9781441103222

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Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

5 November, 2015

Pages:

160

Description:

Sarah Coakley shows how desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.

Synopsis:

Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds. Professor Coakley is as familiar with the Bible and the Early Fathers as she is with the writings of Freud and Jung, and she draws heavily on Gregory of Nyssa's theology of desire in what she proposes. She points the way through the false modern alternatives of repression and libertinism, agape and eros, recovering a way in which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.

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Bloomsbury Continuum

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