Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity : Cognition and Discipline (Hardcover)

Part I. Evaluating Postulants: Introduction to Part I; 1. Discerning motivation I: status and vocation; 2. Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment; Part II. Cognitive Disciplines: Introduction to Part II; 3. Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart; 4. Learning the fear of God; 5. Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation; Part III. Collective Heart-Work: Introduction to Part III; 6. The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration; 7. Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance; Conclusion.