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 / Hannah Hunt. - Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, c2012. - xii, 237 p. ; 25 cm. - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity. . - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity. .

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-229) 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.

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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.

BT741.3 / .H86 2012

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