Clothed in the body [electronic resource] : asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / Hannah Hunt.

By: Hunt, HannahContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquityPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012Description: xii, 237 pISBN: 9781409409151 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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. 30-600Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 233/.509 LOC classification: BT741.3 | .H86 2012Online resources: Click to View
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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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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