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Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era /

Main Author: Hunt, Hannah.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.
Series:Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
Subjects:
Human body > Religious aspects > Early church, ca. 30-600. > Christianity > History of doctrines
Theological anthropology > Christianity > Early church, ca. 30-600. > History of doctrines
Asceticism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10568770
Table of Contents:
  • Hellenistic 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's integration of the body
  • The Syrian perspective on asceticism
  • Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity
  • Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia
  • "Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation
  • Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs
  • Orthodox patristic formulations.

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