Asceticism
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Qui autem te per contemtum mundanorum et carnis mortificationem sequuntur, vere sapientes esse cognoscuntur, quia de vanitate ad veritatem, et de carne ad spiritum transferuntur. Those who follow you by loathing worldly goods and mortifying their flesh will be known as wise, because they pass from vanity to truth, from the flesh to the spirit.…
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Paul Tillich writes, in his Systematic Theology: “A group, whether a family or mankind as a whole, does not participate in the effects of the New Being.” (I, 87) The family is meaningful, but it is not a Christian value—it is no ultimate. It is remarkable that, in the history of Christianity, one of the…
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