Richard Finn

Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the first combined study of ancient ascetic traditions, which have been previously misunderstood by being studied separately.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9780521681544
• ISBN-10: 0521681545
• Artikelnr.: 26572608

Autorenporträt

Richard Finn OP is a Dominican friar and currently Regent of Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University, where he is a member of the Theology faculty and of the Classics faculty. He most recently published Almsgiving in the Later Roman Empire in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Pagan asceticism: cultic and contemplative purity
3. Asceticism in Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism
4. Christian asceticism before Origen
5. Origen and his ascetic legacy
6. Cavemen, cenobites, and clerics
7. Conclusion.