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Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : cognition and discipline / Paul C. Dilley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.Description: xii, 350 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781107184015
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 271.009/051 23
LOC classification:
  • BX2465 .D55 2017
Other classification:
  • BQX 6812.D55 2017
Contents:
Evaluating postulants -- Discerning motivation I: status and vocation -- Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment -- Cognitive disciplines -- Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart -- Learning the fear of God -- Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation -- Collective heart-work -- The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration -- Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Opera (Magaz.) Opera (Magaz.) Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Magazzino BQX 6812.D55 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0030204568

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Evaluating postulants -- Discerning motivation I: status and vocation -- Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment -- Cognitive disciplines -- Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart -- Learning the fear of God -- Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation -- Collective heart-work -- The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration -- Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance.