Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary PredicamentState University of New York Press, 22 окт. 1992 г. - Всего страниц: 350 This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and Nietzschean decadence, the proclivity for extirpating instinctive drives instead of satisfying or sublimating them. In addition to overcoming diversion and decadence in contemporary consumerist culture, VanNess recommends spiritual discipline as a means of political resistance to powerful institutions which seek to exercise social control in democratic societies by promulgating addictive patterns of consumption. Finally, he argues that regimens of spiritual discipline can serve healthful and liberating purposes, and generally promote fullness of life, only insofar as they are shaped by an ethos of intellectual criticism and aesthetic experimentation. |
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... Christ " the whole fullness ( λnowμα ) of deity dwells bodily , and you have come to fullness of life ( Teπλngwμévou ) in him " ( Col. 2 : 9-10 ) .9 In the second century of the Christian era the term received a technical religious ...
... Christ " the whole fullness ( λnowμα ) of deity dwells bodily , and you have come to fullness of life ( Teπλngwμévou ) in him " ( Col. 2 : 9-10 ) .9 In the second century of the Christian era the term received a technical religious ...
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... Christ ) healed himself and will heal me all the more surely . I must add my wounds to his , and join myself to him and he will save me in saving himself . " 15 The way to effect this communion with Christ is also indicated in The ...
... Christ ) healed himself and will heal me all the more surely . I must add my wounds to his , and join myself to him and he will save me in saving himself . " 15 The way to effect this communion with Christ is also indicated in The ...
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... Christ.20 Indeed , he contributed himself to the literature of self - denial with his theme of the self's hatefulness ( " Le moi est haïssable " ) . " Thus family recollections and Pascal's own statements led a lineage of pious ...
... Christ.20 Indeed , he contributed himself to the literature of self - denial with his theme of the self's hatefulness ( " Le moi est haïssable " ) . " Thus family recollections and Pascal's own statements led a lineage of pious ...
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... God's existence may not be rationally proved but it can be responsibly presupposed . Still he knew that it could not effect faith , and faith ! in Jesus Christ he thought was the only genuine 26 Spirituality , Diversion , and Decadence.
... God's existence may not be rationally proved but it can be responsibly presupposed . Still he knew that it could not effect faith , and faith ! in Jesus Christ he thought was the only genuine 26 Spirituality , Diversion , and Decadence.
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... Christ . First , they combat diversions ; they counter the trivializing and benumbing effects of activities which engage the mind only so much as to prevent it from being engaged by the profound concerns of life and death , and sin and ...
... Christ . First , they combat diversions ; they counter the trivializing and benumbing effects of activities which engage the mind only so much as to prevent it from being engaged by the profound concerns of life and death , and sin and ...
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A Contemporary Evaluation | 47 |
Semiotic SelfReference | 95 |
Physical Symmetry | 125 |
Biological Equilibration | 159 |
Nietzsches Negation | 203 |
A Novel Response | 233 |
Beyond Diversion and Decadence | 273 |
Select Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 335 |
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Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence: The Contemporary Predicament Peter Higbie Van Ness Ограниченный просмотр - 1992 |
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