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Language: en
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-05 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the pries
Language: en
Pages: 457
Pages: 457
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-11 - Publisher: Routledge
Annotation This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation of how the question of asceticism might reorder the way in which we interpret t
Language: en
Pages: 194
Pages: 194
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-01 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Margaret Miles here explores Christianity's understandings of the human body in the past and presents new concepts for the future. An enlightening investigation
Language: en
Pages: 389
Pages: 389
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
God, Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to re-conceive the relation of sexual desire and the desir
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-30 - Publisher: Berghahn Books
Asceticism, so it is argued in this volume, is a modern category. The ubiquitous cult of the body, of fitness and diet equally evokes the ongoing success of asc