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Clothed in the Body: Asceticism, the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

By Hunt , Hannah

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis (CAM);Ashgate Publishing Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9781409409144, 9781409409151, 9781409456384
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
17 MB (17945944 bytes)
Series
Ashgate Studies in Philosophy & Theology in Late Antiquity
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
RELIGION--Christianity--General;Electronic books;R

Description

Contents: Introduction Greek insights into the human person Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul Desert teachings on the body and asceticism 'Virgins of God': manly women and transvestite saints 'Enemy' or 'friend': Climacus' integration of the body The Syrian perspective on asceticism Key Syrian sources: apochrypha and anonymity Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia 'Clothed in the body' as a metaphor for incarnation Heterodox Christologies and the heresiarchs Orthodox patristic formulations Conclusion Bibliography Indexes.

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