Culture and restraint,

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OCLC:6456289
Autore principale: Black, Hugh, b. 1868
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: New York, Chicago, F.H. Revell Company [c 1909]
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Documenti correlati:Online version: Culture and restraint.
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Monograph

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Sommario:
  • Introduction
  • Zion against Greece: the problem stated
  • The aesthetic ideal: culture
  • Defects of the aesthetic ideal
  • Culture as religion
  • The perfect man
  • The ascetic idea: restraint
  • The origin and growth of asceticism
  • The failure of the ascetic ideal
  • A mediaeval conception of sainthood
  • The physical treatment of the spiritual life
  • The teaching of Jesus on asceticism
  • The Christian solution.