Fullness of Life: historical foundations for a new ascetism

Dr. Miles teaches historical theology at Harvard Divinity School. She explores 'descriptions of historic Christian authors from Ign. of Antioch to Thomas Aquinas on the relationshipt of body and soul and their suggestions that the Christian life centers around the task of 'keeping body and soul toge...

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Author:Margaret Ruth Miles
Published: Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1981
Total Pages:186
Format:Book
Topic:- Doctrine > From man to God > [Morale] > [Ascèse. Monde] > [Ascèse]
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:Dr. Miles teaches historical theology at Harvard Divinity School. She explores 'descriptions of historic Christian authors from Ign. of Antioch to Thomas Aquinas on the relationshipt of body and soul and their suggestions that the Christian life centers around the task of 'keeping body and soul together'. She discovers that these authors were nog only intensely interested in but also overwhelmingly affirming of the body as an integral and permanent aspect of human being. She then looks at four types of asceticism represented by 1) the Egyptian desert fathers 2) monastic rules 3) Augustine 4) Igantius Loyola. Finally she looks 'Toward a New Ascetism'.