Word: asceticism
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An ascetic and humble man, Mclntyre entered the priesthood late in life. Born in Manhattan, the son of an invalided former city employee, he attended public high school, City College and Columbia University at night, while working days for a Wall Street brokerage firm. At 29, he turned down the...
Vigorous Turn. With Nehru gone, the gaze of India and the world turned to his successor. Flying back to New Delhi from Allahabad, Shastri was officially installed as Prime Minister and turned vigorously to the tasks before him. A conciliator by nature, he hoped to bring his principal rival, Morarji...
No odder figure ever guided the destinies of the Holy Roman Empire than the Emperor Julian Augustus (circa 331-363), known as Julian the Apostate. Here was a recluse and a scholar who became a great military leader, an ascetic who preached the life of the senses, a fatalist who...
Christian theologians have often claimed that the Judaism of Jesus' time was decadent, "a world of ossified belief in the letter, of a narrow-minded caste spirit and materialistic piety," as the German Catholic Theologian Karl Adam put it. On the contrary, Isaac argues, the two centuries before Jesus...
Society of Angels. The ascetics, Lacarrière thinks, were not really alone. By conquering temporal time, they had gained a kind of eternity. By taking to the desert, writes Lacarrière, the ascetic joined a brotherhood that "made him one with all men of the past, since Adam...