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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 439 ratings — published 1988
Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 524 ratings — published 1952
The New Asceticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 235 ratings — published
The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,445 ratings — published 1983
The Making of the Self: Ancient and Modern Asceticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2008
Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published
The Mystic Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.10 — 10 ratings — published 2005
Clothed in the Body: Asceticism, the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era (Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 8,853 ratings — published 2009
Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity (Family, Sexuality and Social Relations in Past Times)
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avg rating 3.64 — 25 ratings — published 1983
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,881 ratings — published 2025
Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (Middle Age Series)
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avg rating 3.88 — 40 ratings — published 1998
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 68,055 ratings — published 1996
The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,291 ratings — published 2019
They Speak by Silences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.74 — 61 ratings — published 1955
St. John of the Cross for Beginners: A Commentary on The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night of the Soul (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 33 ratings — published 2014
The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (Studien und Texte zu Antike Und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 78)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2013
Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity: The Reception of New Testament Texts in Ancient Ascetic Discourses (Novum Testamentum Et Orbis Antiquus ... Zur Umwelt Des) (English and German Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
Conversation With Christ: The Teaching of St. Teresa of Avila About Personal Prayer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 317 ratings — published 1980
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 507 ratings — published 2020
Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 38 ratings — published 2006
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 1,541 ratings — published 2024
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 304 ratings — published 2018
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 604 ratings — published 2024
The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
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avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published
Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well (Global Perspectives on Aging)
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avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published
Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) (Volume 8)
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avg rating 3.60 — 15 ratings — published 1996
John of Avila: Audi, filia - Listen, O Daughter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 27 ratings — published 2006
Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 393 ratings — published 2013
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,550 ratings — published 1618
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 91 ratings — published
Ascetic Culture: Essays in Honor of Philip Rousseau (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
In Quest of Beauty (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Encyclopedia of Monasticism: 2 volume set (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2000
The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 104 ratings — published 2000
The Philokalia, Volume 2: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 354 ratings — published 1982
Monastic Ecological Wisdom: A Living Tradition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published
Abba Isaiah Of Scetis: Ascetic Discourses (Cistercian Studies Series, #150)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2001
The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 23 ratings — published 1998
Letters and Asceticism in Fourth-Century Egypt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2000
The Gospel of Thomas (ebook)
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avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published 1997
The New Q (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2005
Great Cloud of Witnesses: How the Dead Make a Living Church (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published
Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 1978
Reading Renunciation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 1999
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2005
Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 240 ratings — published 2022
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,184 ratings — published 1998
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
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avg rating 4.31 — 3,641 ratings — published 1975
Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 1990
“Many solitaries living in the desert have been lost because they lived like people in the world. It is better to live in a crowd and want to live a solitary life than to live in solitude and be longing all the time for company.”
― The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
― The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection
“the average outsider is convinced, not only that Catholicism is nothing except asceticism, but that asceticism is nothing except pessimism.”
― Saint Thomas Aquinas
― Saint Thomas Aquinas
