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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquityPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, c2012.Description: xii, 237 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781409409144 (hbk.) :
  • 1409409147 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 233.509 23
LOC classification:
  • BT741.3 .H86 2012
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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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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