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Asceticism Books
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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 437 ratings — published 1988
Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 513 ratings — published 1952
The New Asceticism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 232 ratings — published
The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 1,440 ratings — published 1983
Making of the Self, The: 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 — 8,782 ratings — published 2009
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 — 1,257 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: Reception and Use of New Testament Texts in Ancient Christian Ascetic Discourses (Novum Testamentum Et ... 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 — 307 ratings — published 1980
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 484 ratings — published 2020
Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 37 ratings — published 2006
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 1,490 ratings — published 2024
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 301 ratings — published 2018
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 546 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 4.43 — 14 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 3.71 — 14 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 4.40 — 386 ratings — published 2013
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,541 ratings — published 1618
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.10 — 90 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 4.36 — 101 ratings — published 2000
The Philokalia, Volume 2: The Complete Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 352 ratings — published 1982
Monastic Ecological Wisdom: A Living Tradition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13 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 4.38 — 8 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 3.76 — 236 ratings — published 2022
Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,169 ratings — published 1998
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
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avg rating 4.30 — 3,583 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
How to Live a Holy Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.68 — 93 ratings — published 2005
Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (ebook)
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avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2021
Milarepa (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.21 — 3,542 ratings — published 1997
Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery: The Role of Philosophical Asceticism from Ancient Judaism to Late Antiquity (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
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avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
“A man who is moved towards doing one thing or another purely by the consciousness of God's will and the desire to please Him, never prefers one activity to another, even if one is great and lofty, and another petty and insignificant; but he has his will equally disposed towards either, so long as they are pleasing to God. So whether he does something lofty and great or petty and insignificant, he remains equally calm and content; for he has but one intention and one aim, to the exclusion of all else — to please God always and in all he does, whether in life or in death, as the Apostle says: 'Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him' (II Cor. v. 9).”
― Unseen Warfare: Spiritual Combat against the Passions and the Demonic realm
― Unseen Warfare: Spiritual Combat against the Passions and the Demonic realm
“If the average American were to jump right into week long retreat in a Zen monastery, it would certainly feel like an excruciatingly painful practice of extreme asceticism—but so would trying to run a full marathon on the first day one decides to take up jogging. It may be the case that many Zen monasteries tilt too far in the direction of asceticism, even more than is necessary as a corrective to our more hedonistic lifestyle. But it is no doubt true that many of our lifestyles tilt too far in the direction of indulging various desires, an indulgence that multiplies and distorts our natural desires into unnatural cravings.”
― Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
― Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
