| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 409 pages) |
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Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought
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Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought.
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| Summary |
This collection of essays explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique practice and religious imagination through stories from the eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies from antiquity subject to modern interpretations. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Dangling bodies, robes of glory : the garb of embodiment in ancient Christianity / Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, Andrew S. Jacobs -- Body and soul : union in creation, reunion at resurrection / Frances Young -- Jesus's dazzling garments : Origen's exegesis of the transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew / Arthur P. Urbano -- Conversing with clothes : Germanos and Mary's belt / Thomas Arentzen -- "Denominationalism" in fourth-century Syria : readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22-24 / Sidney H. Griffith -- A school for the soul : John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the force of ritual habit / Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos -- A question of character : the "labor of composition" as "preventative medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History / Rebecca Krawiec -- "I want to be alone" : ascetic celebrity and the splendid isolation of Simeon Stylites / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Crowds and collective affect in Romanos's biblical retellings / Georgia Frank -- Christian legend in medieval Iraq : siblings, sacrifice, and sanctity in Behnam and Sarah / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent -- Five women martyrs : from Persia to Crete / Sebastian Brock -- Gregory of Nazianzus's poetic ascetic aesthetic / Suzanne Abrams Rebillard -- Eclipsed in exile : in defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians / Bernadette McNary-Zak -- Sacred bonds : religion, relationships, and the art of pedagogy / Constance M. Furey -- "And yet the books" : Patristics in the footnotes / Susan R. Holman -- Cultural heritage preservation and canon formation : what Syriac and Coptic can teach us about the historiography of the digital humanities / Caroline T. Schroeder. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Holiness.
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Christian literature, Early.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- History. |
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Christian literature, Early |
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Church history -- Primitive and early church |
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Holiness |
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Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity |
| Chronological Term |
30-600 |
| Added Author |
Frank, Georgia, 1963- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjx63pqcFGcdVd3TBCcFJC
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Holman, Susan R., editor.
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Jacobs, Andrew S., 1973- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjGgfDWGfTwbK9jTt4Gj4q
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Garb of being. New York : Fordham University Press, 2020 9780823287024 (DLC) 2019028487 (OCoLC)1108802488 |
| ISBN |
9780823287048 (electronic book) |
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0823287041 (electronic book) |
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9780823287031 (electronic book) |
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0823287033 (electronic book) |
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9780823287024 |
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0823287025 |
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