Benjamin H Dunning

Specters of Paul

Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Benjamin H. Dunning explores the variety of approaches to sexual difference in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways in which the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled, shaped, and also constrained approaches to the issue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243079
• ISBN-10: 0812243072
• Artikelnr.: 33081918

Autorenporträt

Benjamin H. Dunning

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Sexual Difference and Paul's Adam-Christ Typology 1
PART I. THE PLATONIC WOMAN
Chapter 1. The Many Become One: Theological Monism and the Problem of the
Female Body
Chapter 2. Desire and the Feminine: Clement of Alexandria's Displacement of
Eve
Chapter 3. What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman? Sexual Dimorphism in
On the Origin of the World
PART II. FLESH AND VIRGINITY
Chapter 4. Virgin Earth, Virgin Birth: Irenaeus of Lyons and the
Predicaments of Recapitulation
Chapter 5. The Contrary Operation: Resignifying the Unpenetrated Body in
Tertullian of Carthage
Conclusion: Specters of Paul
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index