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Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : cognition and discipline /

Dilley, Paul C.

Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : cognition and discipline / Paul C. Dilley. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017. - xii, 350 p. ; 24 cm.

Include bibliografia e indice.

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.

9781107184015


Monachesimo e ordini religiosi--Età antica

BX2465 / .D55 2017

271.009/051