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Exploring the religious category of dying to self, this book aims to resolve contemporary issues that relate to detachment. Kellenberger explores the key issues that arise for detachment, including the place of the individual's will in detachment, the relationship of detachment to desire, to attachment to persons, and to self-love and self-respect, and issues of contemporary secular detachment such as inducement via chemicals. This book heeds the relevance of the religious virtue of detachment for those living in the twenty-first-century.

Asceticism. --- Mortification --- Self-denial. --- Ascétisme --- Abnégation de soi --- Mortification. --- Asceticism --- Self-denial --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Ascétisme --- Abnégation de soi --- Denial of self --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Altruism --- Ethics --- Self-sacrifice --- Christian life

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In A Sincere and Teachable Heart: Self-Denying Virtue in British Intellectual Life, 1736-1859 , Richard Bellon demonstrates that respectability and authority in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain were not grounded foremost in ideas or specialist skills but in the self-denying virtues of patience and humility. Three case studies clarify this relationship between intellectual standards and practical moral duty. The first shows that the Victorians adapted a universal conception of sainthood to the responsibilities specific to class, gender, social rank, and vocation. The second illustrates how these ideals of self-discipline achieved their form and cultural vigor by analyzing the eighteenth-century moral philosophy of Joseph Butler, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, and William Paley. The final reinterprets conflict between the liberal Anglican Noetics and the conservative Oxford Movement as a clash over the means of developing habits of self-denial.

Self-denial --- Virtue --- Patience --- Humility --- Ethics --- Oxford movement --- Meekness --- Conduct of life --- Human acts --- Denial of self --- Altruism --- Self-sacrifice --- Mortification --- Tractarianism --- High Church movement --- Anglo-Catholicism --- Social aspects --- History. --- Church of England --- United Church of England and Ireland --- Anglican Church --- Anglikanskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Ecclesia Anglicana --- Kirche von England --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Moral conditions.