The garb of being embodiment and the pursuit of holiness in late ancient Christianity
This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2020
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005023029708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Dangling bodies, robes of glory : the garb of embodiment in ancient Christianity /Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, Andrew S. Jacobs
- Body and soul : union in creation, reunion at resurrection /Frances Young
- Jesus's dazzling garments : Origen's exegesis of the transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew /Arthur P. Urbano
- Conversing with clothes : Germanos and Mary's belt /Thomas Arentzen
- "Denominationalism" in fourth-century Syria : readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22-24 /Sidney H. Griffith
- A school for the soul : John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the force of ritual habit / Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
- A question of character : the "labor of composition" as "preventative medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History / Rebecca Krawiec
- "I want to be alone" : ascetic celebrity and the splendid isolation of Simeon Stylites / Andrew S. Jacobs
- Crowds and collective affect in Romanos's biblical retellings / Georgia Frank
- Christian legend in medieval Iraq : siblings, sacrifice, and sanctity in Behnam and Sarah / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
- Five women martyrs : from Persia to Crete / Sebastian Brock
- Gregory of Nazianzus's poetic ascetic aesthetic / Suzanne Abrams Rebillard
- Eclipsed in exile : in defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians / Bernadette McNary-Zak
- Sacred bonds : religion, relationships, and the art of pedagogy / Constance M. Furey
- "And yet the books" : Patristics in the footnotes / Susan R. Holman
- Cultural heritage preservation and canon formation : what Syriac and Coptic can teach us about the historiography of the digital humanities / Caroline T. Schroeder
