Document Type
Article
Department
Religion (CGU)
Publication Date
2004
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Practical Theology | Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Abstract
Origen could not be a more profoundly influential--if not sometimes enigmatic--figure when considered in conjunction with the controversial and puzzling historical phenomenon that is now called "asceticism," the English term that is the usual (all too flat) translation of the astonishingly multivalent Greek term askesis.
Rights Information
© 2004 Westminster John Knox
Recommended Citation
Wimbush, Vincent L. “Asceticism,” in Westminster Handbook to Origen, ed. John McGuckin (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2003), 64-67.
Included in
Practical Theology Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons
Comments
“Asceticism,” from Westminster Handbook to Origen, ed. John Anthony McGuckin. © 2004 Westminster John Knox Press. Used by permission.