cognition and discipline Dilley, Paul C. creator text xx New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2017 9999 monographic und eng

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xii, 350 p. ; 24 cm. 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. Paul C. Dilley Monastic and religious life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.Monastic and religious life -- Early church BX2465 .D55 2017 97890040951061107184010 220922