ascesis

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The heresy -- or rather, failure -- of Evangelicalism (and their gnostic degenerate replicant, Pentecostalism) is the rejection of ascesis.

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  • The heresy -- or rather, failure -- of Evangelicalism (and their gnostic degenerate replicant, Pentecostalism) is the rejection of ascesis. —  Second Terrace
  • Ekstasis, noesis, alacritous, architectonic, hybritistic, ascesis epektatic, and other such words (the majority accompanied by red underlining from my Word program) lie thick on these pages, as do passages such as: "Odysseus is a philosophical exemplar in his solitary apartness, in his large capacity for travel to extreme places both within himself and the numinous regions, in his burgeoning passivity to divine exigence, in his stripping, in his daimonic affliction, but above all in his affective apokatastatic nostaligia …" —  NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • Renaissance within the middle age itself, and as an expression of its qualities, two little compositions in early French; not because they constitute the best possible expression of them, but because they help the unity of my series, inasmuch as the Renaissance ends also in France, in French poetry, in a phase of which the writings of Joachim du Bellay are in many ways the most perfect illustration; the Renaissance thus putting forth in France an aftermath, a wonderful later growth, the products of which have to the full that subtle and delicate sweetness which belongs to a refined and comely decadence; just as its earliest phases have the freshness which belongs to all periods of growth in art, the charm of ascesis, of the austere and serious girding of the loins in youth. —  The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry
  • Remy de Gourmont would free us from the rule of dogmatist and moralist, but he would free us from these without plunging us into a yet sterner ascesis. —  Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
 

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  1. Greek ἂσκησ, σ1ις, training, walk of life, monastic life: see ascetic.
 

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