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The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God
Sarah Coakley
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Description for The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God
Paperback. Sarah Coakley shows how desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 182.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781441103222
SKU
V9781441103222
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About Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK and was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, USA. She was an assistant curate at Littlemore, Oxford, for seven years after her ordination in 2000 and is currently a minor canon of Ely Cathedral.
Reviews for The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God
This theological excavation argues that a fallen world can be redeemed, if it can find ways, in the light of Christ, to chasten and purify all of its desires before God.
Church of Ireland Gazette
Church of Ireland Gazette