TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Hannah
TI  - Clothed in the body: asceticism, the body, and the spiritual in the late antique era 
T2  - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
SN  - 9781409409144 (hbk.) :
AV  - BT741.3 .H86 2012
U1  - 233.509 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, England
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Human body
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Theological anthropology
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - History
N1  - 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
ER  -