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Maximus the Confessor (Early Church Fathers)
by Andrew Louth
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with references to "ascetic struggle".
Excerpt - on Page 22: "
... a way of clothing the teaching he has received in the mantle of a lived tradition, lived out in the ascetic struggle of the holy man or woman, or saint. In his scholia on passages from St Gregory of Nazianzus, whom he ... "
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John Climacus: From the Egyptian Desert to the Sinaite Mountain
by John Chryssavgis
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with references to "ascetic struggle".
Excerpt - on Page 59: "
... person, whose ultimate aim is to love God.54 This concept will be examined more closely in the chapter on the ascetic struggle. ... "
Key Phrases:
Mark the Monk, Symeon the New Theologian, Isaac the Syrian, Mystic Treatises, Abba Isaiah, John Climacus, hyper physin, quodam causidico, don des larmes, joyful sorrow, spiritual tears, ascetic struggle
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The Foundations of Christian Bioethics
by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.
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with references to "ascetic struggle".
Excerpt - on Page 98: "
... Kierkegaard reacts against the trans- formation of this secularized Christianity through a dialectic of doubt rather than an ascetic struggle. Within a post-Enlightenment society in which the miracles of Christ are no longer believable, he articulates his plea for faith ... "
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Tradition and Theology in St John Cassian (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
by A. M. C. Casiday
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with references to "ascetic struggle".
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Cassian's Christology, Holy Spirit, Sicilian Anonymous, Desert Fathers, Provençal Masters, Cassian's Incarnation, leg diu, lib emend, lib fid, homo assumptus, ascetic struggle, monastic works
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