Asceticism and the hopeful self: subjectivity, reductionism, and modernity.

Cross Currents | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Recently at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem I was struck by an Orthodox nun who queued to kneel by Christ's tomb in a very pious way, to be ushered out after only a minute or so by a monk whose job it was to ensure a regular flow of pilgrims. Her journey was a kind of asceticism, along with her prayers and kneeling on the hard stone, but perhaps the greatest asceticism she undertook was, for her, the disappointingly short time she had before the tomb; hardly enough time to kiss the icon of the Theotokos or say a prayer. The intensity of her devotion sharply ...

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