The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Church

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Preface xiii PA R T ONE. FRO M PAU L TO A N TH O N Y j 1. Body and City 5 2. From Apostle to Apologist: Sexual Order and Sexual Renunciation in the Early Church 33 3. Martyrdom, Prophecy and Continence: Hermas to Tertullian 65 4. "To Undo the Works of Women": Marcion, Tatian and the Encratites 83 5. "When You Make the Two One": Valentinus and Gnostic Spiritual Guidance 103 6. "A Faint Image of Divine Providence": Clement of Alexandria 122 7. "A Promiscuous Brotherhood and Sisterhood": Men and Women in the Christian Churches 140 8. "I Beseech You: Be Transformed": Origen 160 9. "Walking on Earth, Touching High Heaven's Vault": Porphyry and Methodius 178 xii CONTENTS PART TWO. A SC E T IC ISM A N D SO C IE T Y IN THE EA STERN EM PIRE 210 11. The Desert Fathers: Anthony to John Climacus 213 12. 'Make to Yourselves Separate Booths” : Monks, Women and Marriage in Egypt 241 13. "Daughters of Jerusalem” : The Ascetic Eife of Women in the Fourth Century 2$g 14. Marriage and Mortality: Gregory of Nyssa 285 15. Sexuality and the City: John Chrysostom 303 16. "These Are Our Angels” : Syria 323 PA RT THREE. A M BRO SE TO A U G U ST IN E : THE M A K IN G OF THE LATIN TRAD ITIO N 33g 17. Aula Pudoris: Ambrose 341 18. "Learn of Me a Holy Arrogance” : Jerome 366 ig. Sexuality and Society: Augustine 387 Epilogue. Body and Society: The Early Middle Ages 428 Bibliography 449 Index 495