The life of spiritual discipline designed for the purpose—prayer, liturgy, sacrifice, devotions—is called ascesis, and the monastic tradition, especially of Eastern Christianity, exists to enable some people to devote their lives to it, both for their own salvation and as a sign to the rest of us of what we must make out of our own lives in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

The "radical spiritual ascesis" that Rome must undertake is what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodox (non?)-ecclesiology, continued] Reference

Sacramentum Vitae: The Catholic citizen's Lenten ascesis skip to main.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic citizen's Lenten ascesis] Reference

Perhaps such a prayer might be better heard if we resume serious ascesis when "ordinary" time resumes after the Easter season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

The courses also teach the importance of ascesis, of renouncing some things in order to grow and develop in the search for a higher good.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACN News - Holiness and discipline in Peru] Reference

I've refrained from commenting until now because I needed time to allow my Advent ascesis to eliminate even the temptation to Schadenfreude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

Cardinal Roger Mahony is counter-cultural about immigration and health care, but not about birth control, homosexuality, liturgy, and ascesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Rome's work, her "radical spiritual ascesis" is to posture herself in any way which will foster reunion without relenting a single Roman dogma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodox (non?)-ecclesiology, continued] Reference

Aside from the sacraments of reconciliation and Eucharist, our most important ascesis is daily life—its challenges, struggles, and sufferings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

In other words, Mike, as a good and devout RC, thinks that spiritual ascesis for the Orthodox will lead Orthodox to accept Roman Catholic dogma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodox (non?)-ecclesiology, continued] Reference

I see the temptation to succumb to that as an invitation to spiritual combat—or, if you prefer, to a form of ascesis that must occasion a deepening of prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting perspective on ecumenism] Reference

The ascesis so vital to the final Foucault is an exercise of oneself; and if thought is an activity that yields a "game of truth" by which one undergoes change, then surely an interrogation of the technical "games" of poetics may be said to speak to a vital aspect of human need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age: Introduction] Reference

The spiritual ascesis Mike wants from the Orthodox is one in which we refrain from our "rejectionism" of various sorts, and develop our ecclesiology to the point where we can accept the above statements of Vat I and the other RCC dogmas we have problems with and state that there is nothing false found in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orthodox (non?)-ecclesiology, continued] Reference

"The ways of the image and the emblem are opposed; the final line is not a rhetorical statement of reconciliation but an anguished question; it is our perilous fate not to know if the glimpses of unity which we perceive at times can be made more permanent by natural ways or by the ascesis of renunciation, by images or emblem" (202).    From Wordnik.com.  [History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin] Reference

Remy de Gourmont would free us from the rule of dogmatist and moralist, but he would free us from these without plunging us into a yet sterner ascesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

Labels admin apologetics ascesis atheism beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall and Rise of the Neocaths] Reference

The Catholic citizen's Lenten ascesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Apologetics, ascesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Priestly celibacy: what's important is the fascination] Reference

ascesis, morality, theology.    From Wordnik.com.  [What are we examining when we examine our conscience?] Reference

Ekstasis, noesis, alacritous, architectonic, hybritistic, ascesis epektatic, and other such words (the majority accompanied by red underlining from my Word program) lie thick on these pages, as do passages such as: "Odysseus is a philosophical exemplar in his solitary apartness, in his large capacity for travel to extreme places both within himself and the numinous regions, in his burgeoning passivity to divine exigence, in his stripping, in his daimonic affliction, but above all in his affective apokatastatic nostaligia …".    From Wordnik.com.  [NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

Ekstasis, noesis, alacritous, architectonic, hybritistic, ascesis epektatic, and other such words (the majority accompanied by red underlining from my Word program) lie thick on these pages, as do passages such as: “Odysseus is a philosophical exemplar in his solitary apartness, in his large capacity for travel to extreme places both within himself and the numinous regions, in his burgeoning passivity to divine exigence, in his stripping, in his daimonic affliction, but above all in his affective apokatastatic nostaligia …”.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 January 24 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference