Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/5 I’ve been reading of Serapion’s prayer, “We beg of you, make us truly alive”, and the movement from deadness into life standing at the very heart of early Xian experience, before the radiant immediacy of Jesus’ presence hardened into creed, ecclesial structure or moral code.

Photograph of “Fullness of Life: Historical Foundations for a New Asceticism” by Margaret R. Miles
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Photograph of “Fullness of Life: Historical Foundations for a New Asceticism” by Margaret R. Miles

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @mattleeanderson @JeremyTreat5 Margaret Miles’s 'Fullness of Life' (1981) belongs in this conversation, too. It credibly recovers Christian asceticism as “keeping body and soul together,” its end not bodily negation but vivification: “We beg of you, make us truly alive.” That reading opened into this thread...Quoted by@mattleeanderson @JeremyTreat5 Margaret Miles’s 'Fullness of Life' (1981) belongs in this conversation, too. It credibly recovers Christian asceticism as “keeping body and soul together,” its end not bodily negation but vivification: “We beg of you, make us truly alive.” That reading opened into this thread...