{"product_id":"new-asceticism","title":"New Asceticism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Coakley draws both liberal and conservative camps into a new and serious reflection on ascetical theology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter of \u003ci\u003eThe New Asceticism\u003c\/i\u003e concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary wounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Coakley is as familiar with the Bible and the Early Fathers as she is with the writings of Freud and Jung, and she draws heavily on Gregory of Nyssa''s theology of desire in what she proposes. She points the way through the false modern alternatives of repression and libertinism, agape and eros, recovering a way in which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318162366846,"sku":"NW9781441103222","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781441103222.jpg?v=1778698616","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/new-asceticism","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}