Dunning, Benjamin H.

Specters of Paul sexual difference in early Christian thought / [electronic resource] : Benjamin H. Dunning. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011. - x, 252 p. - Divinations : rereading late ancient religion . - Divinations. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The many become one : theological monism and the problem of the female body -- Desire and the feminine : Clement of Alexandria's displacement of Eve -- What sort of thing is this luminous woman? : sexual dimorphism in on the origin of the world -- Virgin earth, virgin birth : Irenaeus of Lyons and the predicaments of recapitulation -- The contrary operation : resignifying the unpenetrated body in Tertullian of Carthage.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780812204353 (electronic bk.)




Bible.--N.T.--Epistles of Paul--Theology.


Women--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Sex differences--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.


Electronic books.

BT704 / .D87 2011

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