From the beginning many of the early Christian communities led an ascetic lifestyle, although a good number of New Testament texts do not seem suitable for just

How to make asceticism fit into Christianity.

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies

In the centuries following his death, Jerome (c.347-420) was venerated as a saint and as one of the four Doctors of the Latin church. In his own lifetime, howev

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, "Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategie