Dilley, Paul C.   <br/><br/>
Monasteries and the care of souls in late antique Christianity :   cognition and discipline /  
Paul C. Dilley 
 - New York, NY :   Cambridge University Press,   2017 
 - xii, 350 p.  ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Evaluating postulants -- Discerning motivation I: status and vocation -- Discerning motivation II: trials of commitment -- Cognitive disciplines -- Scriptural exercises and the monastic soundscape: writing on the heart -- Learning the fear of God -- Prayer and monastic progress: from demonic temptation to divine revelation -- Collective heart-work -- The lives (and minds) of others: hagiography, cognition, and commemoration -- Shenoute and the heart of darkness: rituals of collective repentance. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>97890040951061107184010 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Monastic and religious life -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.Monastic and religious life -- Early church.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BX2465   / .D55 2017