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

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

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Main Author: Dilley, Paul (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

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Monastic and religious life > Early church Gebet.
Monastic and religious life > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.

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Call Number: BX2465 . D55

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Table of 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.