This volume examines the forms and functions, ways and means of meditation from c1300 to c1600. It analyzes the internal exercises that mobilized the sensitive faculties of motion, emotion, and sense and the intellective faculties of reason, memory, and will.
"Many people of faith believe the meaning of life depends on our connection to an eternal order of some kind. Atheists deride this belief as a childish superstition. In this wise and profound book, Anthony Kronman offers an alternative to these two entrenched positions, arguing …
The author outlines a spiritual path combining Eastern and Western religious traditions and explains how he has integrated teachings from the world's religions with his own Catholic training.
The author outlines a spiritual path combining Eastern and Western religious traditions and explains how he has integrated teachings from the world's religions with his own Catholic training.
Eating in the wilderness -- Food in the ordered city -- Secularizing diet -- Fasting by choice -- Clean and unclean animals -- Community, heresy, and orthodoxy -- Sacrifice and slaughter -- Christian food, heavenly food, worldly food -- Concluding reflections.
