Coakley Professor Sarah - The New Asceticism Sexuality Gender And The Quest For God - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches homosexuality and the priesthood celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds. Professor Coakley is as familiar with the Bible and the Early Fathers as she is with the writings of Freud and Jung and she draws heavily on Gregory of Nyssa's theology of desire in what she proposes. She points the way through the false modern alternatives of repression and libertinism agape and eros recovering a way in which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.
Title: The New Asceticism Sexuality Gender And The Quest For God
Author(s): Coakley Professor Sarah
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781441103222
Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/5/2015
Category: Christian Theology