Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era /
Hunt, Hannah.
Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / [electronic resource] : Hannah Hunt. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012. - xii, 237 p. - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity . - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781409409151 (electronic bk.)
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Theological anthropology--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Electronic books.
BT741.3 / .H86 2012
233/.509
Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / [electronic resource] : Hannah Hunt. - Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012. - xii, 237 p. - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity . - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781409409151 (electronic bk.)
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Theological anthropology--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Electronic books.
BT741.3 / .H86 2012
233/.509