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Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era
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Title
Clothed in the body [electronic resource] : asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / Hannah Hunt.
ISBN
9781409409144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409409151 (e-book)
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.
Physical Description
xii, 237 p.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2014
Series
Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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