Nicholas Hope
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198269946
- eISBN:
- 9780191600647
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198269943.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
Takes up the second theme of part I. Reform is put in the context of diocesan and parish visitation, land and people, propagation of the Gospel and a reformation of manners. Pietism is discussed as a ...
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Takes up the second theme of part I. Reform is put in the context of diocesan and parish visitation, land and people, propagation of the Gospel and a reformation of manners. Pietism is discussed as a post‐war official programme. The Christian Year in church and home, a new interest in the shape of the liturgy, a development in church architecture from Latin choir to congregational nave, and church music are major topics.Less
Takes up the second theme of part I. Reform is put in the context of diocesan and parish visitation, land and people, propagation of the Gospel and a reformation of manners. Pietism is discussed as a post‐war official programme. The Christian Year in church and home, a new interest in the shape of the liturgy, a development in church architecture from Latin choir to congregational nave, and church music are major topics.
Mira Balberg
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520280632
- eISBN:
- 9780520958210
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520280632.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
The sixth chapter examines the pursuit of ritual purity as part of the rabbinic ethics of the self. It shows that the Mishnah's idealized subjects are distinguished from others (mainly from am ...
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The sixth chapter examines the pursuit of ritual purity as part of the rabbinic ethics of the self. It shows that the Mishnah's idealized subjects are distinguished from others (mainly from am ha-aretz, “the people of the land”) by their attention to impurity at all times. This attentiveness manifests itself in constant reflection on one's actions and encounters, in regular physical self-scrutiny, and perhaps most importantly, in unrelenting reflection on one's own mental dedication to purity. Through the recurring theme of self-examination, the rabbis constructed one's relation to the law as entailing a certain relation to oneself. They shaped the Mishnaic intended subject as possessed of self-control and self-knowledge, thus turning the quest for purity into a quest for self-perfection as a subject of the law.Less
The sixth chapter examines the pursuit of ritual purity as part of the rabbinic ethics of the self. It shows that the Mishnah's idealized subjects are distinguished from others (mainly from am ha-aretz, “the people of the land”) by their attention to impurity at all times. This attentiveness manifests itself in constant reflection on one's actions and encounters, in regular physical self-scrutiny, and perhaps most importantly, in unrelenting reflection on one's own mental dedication to purity. Through the recurring theme of self-examination, the rabbis constructed one's relation to the law as entailing a certain relation to oneself. They shaped the Mishnaic intended subject as possessed of self-control and self-knowledge, thus turning the quest for purity into a quest for self-perfection as a subject of the law.
