Professor Sarah Coakley

The New Asceticism

Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Continuum / Bloomsbury Specialist
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 155999
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 211g
• ISBN-13: 9781441103222
• ISBN-10: 1441103228
• Artikelnr.: 31699558

Autorenporträt

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 7 years after her ordination in 2000 and is currently an Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1. Pleasure Principles: A theology of desire2. The Woman at the Altar3. Other Voices Other Worlds: Homosexuality4. Trinity Prayer and Sexuality5. Deepening Practices: Ascetial and Mystical Theology

Rezensionen

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 20160129