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1 online resource (250 pages). |
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| Series |
Ashgate Studies in Philosophy & Theology in Late Antiquity
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Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Greek Insights into the Human Person; 3 Biblical Understandings of Flesh, Body and Soul; 4 Desert Teachings on the Body and Asceticism; 5 'Virgins of God': Manly Women and Transvestite Saints; 7 The Syrian Perspective on Asceticism; 8 Key Syrian Sources: Apocrypha and Anonymity; 9 Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and Synaesthesia; 10 'Clothed in the Body' as a Metaphor for Incarnation; 11 Heterodox Christologies and the Heresiarchs; 12 Orthodox Patristic Formulations; 13 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Biblical Terms. |
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General Index. |
| Summary |
This book explores religious anthropology and asceticism from its biblical and desert roots and within eastern patristic writers including Ephrem, Pseudo-Macarius and Climacus. Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hunt, Hannah. Clothed in the Body : Asceticism, the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©2012 9781409409144 |
| ISBN |
9781409409151 (electronic book) |
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1409409155 (electronic book) |
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9781409409144 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1409409147 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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