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Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : cognition and discipline
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Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity : cognition and discipline / Paul C. Dilley, University of Iowa.
ISBN
9781316875094 (electronic bk.)
1316875091 (electronic bk.)
9781107184015
1107184010
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 350 pages.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 09, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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