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The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God

By Sarah Coakley

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury
Year
2015
ISBN
1441103228, 9781441103222, 9781441162243
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
382 kB (391181 bytes)
Pages
150\0
Time added
2022-11-27 20:10:20

Description

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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