Lew☦️ on Nostr: I think the "ascetic ideal" is best observed in the lives of the saints. Get you the ...
I think the "ascetic ideal" is best observed in the lives of the saints. Get you the synaxarion and read the lives of the saints or investigate the emergence of the early church and all of its martys/desert ascetics. Just pure devotion to truth...which in the Christian worldview is a person and not some abstract idea.
Published at
2024-08-31 23:46:31Event JSON
{
"id": "671a29155f46125ff30b605a323af13fc220dde83d696a0b277dd760c8ce66f4",
"pubkey": "3881beaeead2cce4df1e7f527e9ade0a5721e4a6f612ff9ac82aa6c92b014a17",
"created_at": 1725147991,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"51f43f213f72bee09d7054aaa8a5c17194ef7a732e6438b49dbebdcfa8e87645",
"",
"reply"
],
[
"p",
"9f504199973ba4f4a0561ae984c19b6e95906379bca099645aa1eaafb6adb407"
]
],
"content": "I think the \"ascetic ideal\" is best observed in the lives of the saints. Get you the synaxarion and read the lives of the saints or investigate the emergence of the early church and all of its martys/desert ascetics. Just pure devotion to truth...which in the Christian worldview is a person and not some abstract idea. ",
"sig": "3e65e52e889174b858e9eb45726dfd34c127c26009bbaef22f9dbc8344d729dbeefca1634fabfc927e411700e026f750365e5e712b412333f1d9a3a0e4c2d14d"
}