Name: Breaking the Mind
Author: Kitchen, Robert A.
ISBN: 9780813221663


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BUY FROM PUBLISHER	Breaking the Mind edited by Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen Catholic University of America Press, 2014 eISBN: 978-0-8132-2167-0 \| Cloth: 978-0-8132-2166-3 Library of Congress Classification BX177.15.N49 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 281.5 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| TOC ABOUT THIS BOOK This collection of sixteen new critical essays offers fresh perspectives on the Book of Steps, adding greater detail and depth to our understanding of the work's intriguing picture of early Syriac asceticism as practiced within the life of a local church and community. TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents By Way of a Preface - Columba Stewart Introduction Part 1. The World Around the Book of Steps 1. The Romano-Persian Frontier and the Context of the Book of Steps 2. Parallel Paths: Tracing Manichaean Footprints along the Syriac Book of Steps 3. The Book of Steps on Magic Part 2. The Text of the Book of Steps 4. A Previously Unknown Reattributed Fragment from Memra 16 of the Book of Steps 5. A Last Disciple of the Apostles: The “Editor’s” Preface, Rabbula’s Rules, and the Date of the Book of Steps Part 3. Biblical Exegisis in the Book of Steps 6. Biblical Exegesis in the Syriac Book of Steps: A Preliminary Survey 7. Did the Author of the Book of Steps Understand Paul? Part 4. Theological Perspectives in the Book of Steps 8. A Broken Mind: The Path to Knowledge in the Book of Steps 9. The Perfect and Perfection in the Book of Steps 10. You Are What You Eat: Dietary Metaphors in the Syriac Book of Steps 11. Falling from the Path of Perfection: Sin in the Syriac Book of Steps Part 5. Practices of Asceticism in the Book of Steps 12. Disturbed Sinners: In Pursuit of Sanctity in the Book of Steps 13. Marriage and Sexuality in the Book of Steps: From Encratism to Orthodoxy 14. "Hidden Work" of the Heart and Spiritual Progression in the Book of Steps 15. Reading the Ascetic Ideal into Genesis 1–3: Hermeneutic Strategies in the Book of Steps Memra 21 16. Lowering in Order to be Raised, Emptying in Order to be Filled: The Ascetical System of the Book of Steps Bibliography Contributors Index of Citations of the Book of Steps Subject Index See other books on: Breaking \| Christian life \| Early works to 1800 \| Mind \| Spirituality See other titles from Catholic University of America Press

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