ascetic lifestyle

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• ascetic / aesthetic —    An ascetic is a person who renounces all material comforts, often for religious devotion: the young man became an ascetic despite his parents hopes that he would be a dentist. It can also be used as an adjective: Ethan Asia led an ascetic… …   Confused words

• ascetic / aesthetic —    An ascetic is a person who renounces all material comforts, often for religious devotion: the young man became an ascetic despite his parents hopes that he would be a dentist. It can also be used as an adjective: Ethan Asia led an ascetic… …   Confused words

• Asceticism — Not to be confused with Aestheticism. Ascetic redirects here. It is not to be confused with Acetic. Asceticism (from the Greek: ἄσκησις, áskēsis, exercise or training ) describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of… …   Wikipedia

• Members of the covenant — The members of the covenant were an important part of early Syriac Christianity. Before the advent of monasticism proper (which developed in the desert of Egypt), most Syriac churches would consist of a community focused around the members of the …   Wikipedia

• Cynic — The Cynics ( el. Κυνικοί, la. Cynici) were an influential group of philosophers from the ancient school of Cynicism. Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. This meant rejecting all… …   Wikipedia

• Cynicism — Cynic redirects here. For the modern understanding of the word cynicism , see Cynicism (contemporary). For other uses, see Cynic (disambiguation). Statue of an unknown Cynic philosopher from the Capitoline Museum in Rome. This statue is a Roman… …   Wikipedia

• Roman Catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church. [1815 25] * * * Largest single Christian denomination in the world, with some one billion members, or about 18% of the world s population. The Roman Catholic church has… …   Universalium

• Kumaragurupara Desikar — (c.17th century AD) was a poet and Saivite ascetic connected with the Dharapuram mutt. Early life Kumaragurupara Desikar was born in a Vellala family of Srivaikuntam, Tirunelveli district. He seems to have accumulated poetic talents at an early… …   Wikipedia

• Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard — is a term used to describe a group of 18th century French religious pilgrims who exhibited convulsions and later constituted a religious sect and a political movement. This practice originated at the tomb of François de Pâris, a Jansenist deacon… …   Wikipedia

• Jerome, Saint — (ca. 345–420)    Eusebius Hieronymus, the Roman biblical scholar better remembered as St. Jerome, was born in the important port city of Aquileia, located on the northernmost shore of the Adriatic Sea. Aquileia was a substantial center of… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature

• Pelagius — (ca. 354 ndash; ca. 420/440) was an ascetic monk who denied the doctrine of original sin, later developed by Augustine of Hippo, and was declared a heretic by the Council of Carthage. His interpretation of a doctrine of free will became known as… …   Wikipedia