Literature and the scandal of holiness
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The Relationship Between Asceticism and Suffering
i was interested too if you could talk about the relation with suffering and healing. Christ as sufferer was also christ as healer, and i think there is a way we can participate in that as well. Is asceticism then turns into, or can turn into, a glorification of mortification. And so you see some one like n sarah in in o the affair, right? She lets go of certain privileges that she has so that a richard can be healed,. So that a bentley can be healed. Es, she's not trying to hurt herself. That's not the ending of itself; it's by being ascetic they 're able to help their neighbour flourish
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