ascetical in a sentence

The Essenes were a Jewish ascetical sect that lived in the Judean desert on the western shore of the Dead Sea during the time of Jesus.
The term of Cardiognosis is also used to indicate the ascetical methods and meditations which lead to the " Knowledge of the Heart ".
His letters were published in 1731, at Naples, in two volumes, and his other ascetical works, three years later in five volumes.
Saint Basil's ascetical writings set forth standards for well-disciplined community life and offered lessons in what became the ideal monastic virtue : humility.
On June 18, 1930, McEleney was Lenox until 1934, when he was sent to study ascetical theology at North Wales in the United Kingdom.

The results of the former could not but benefit the latter by placing Christian morality on a scientific basis and throwing ascetical theology itself into a scientific form.
This is evidenced not only from his preaching, but more particularly from his exposition of the Rule of St . Francis and from his other ascetical writings.
Gandhi preferred ethical model of Jesus and was more interested in his teachings rather than historical Jesus, while Parekh formulated his own ascetical Jesus-Yogi model.
Later, he said that one natural link between Orthodox Christianity and the environmental cause was the " ascetical element " of the church's tradition.
His works " ( Coenobitical Institutions " and the " Conferences ) " represent a transmittal of Evagrius Pontikos'ascetical doctrines to the West.

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