Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunt, Hannah (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate c2012.
Series:Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity.
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Table of 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.