Title The suffering self : pain and narrative representation in early Christian era / Judith Perkins.

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Description	1 online resource (254 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-246) and index.
Contents	1. Death as a happy ending -- 2. Marriages as happy endings -- 3. Pain without effect -- 4. Suffering and power -- 5. Healing and power : the Acts of Peter -- 6. The sick self -- 7. Ideology, not pathology -- 8. Saints' lives : the community of sufferers.
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Subject	Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
	Pain -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
	Identification (Religion) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-60.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Perkins, Judith, 1944- Suffering self. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 0415113636 (DLC) 94042650 (OCoLC)31607291
ISBN	0203210069 (electronic book)
	9780203210062 (electronic book)
	9780415113632 (hardback)
	0415113636 (hardback)
	9780415127066 (paperback)
	0415127068 (paperback)
	0415113636 (Cloth)
	0415127068 (Paper)