Peter Brown (Princeton University)

The Body and Society

Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduct
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 878g
• ISBN-13: 9780231144070
• ISBN-10: 0231144075
• Artikelnr.: 23436958

Autorenporträt

Peter Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. From Paul to anthony
1. Body and City
2. From Apostle to Apologist: Sexual Order and Sexual Renunciation in the
Early Church
3. Martyrdom, Prophecy and Continence: Hermas to Tertullian
4. "To Undo the Works of Women": Marcion, Tatian and the Encratites
5. "When You Make the Two One": Valentinus and Gnostic Spiritual Guidance
6. "A Faint Image of Divine Providence": Clement of Alexandria
7. "A Promiscuous Brotherhood and Sisterhood": Men and Women in the
Christian Churches
8. "I Beseech You: Be Transformed": Origen
9. "Walking on Earth, Touching High Heaven's Vault": Porphyry and Methodius
10. Church and Body: Cyprian, Mani and Eusebius of Caesarea
Part II. asceticism and Society in the Eastern Empire
11. The Desert Fathers: Anthony to John Climacus
12. "Make to Yourselves Separate Booths": Monks, Women and Marriage in
Egypt
13. "Daughters of Jerusalem": The Ascetic Life of Women in the Fourth
Century
14. Marriage and Mortality: Gregory of Nyssa
15. Sexuality and the City: John Chrysostom
16. "These Are Our Angels": Syria
Part III. Ambrose to Augustine: The Making of the Latin Tradition
17. Aula Pudoris: Ambrose
18. "Learn of Me a Holy Arrogance": Jerome
19. Sexuality and Society: Augustine
Epilogue. Body and Society: The Early Middle Ages
Bibliography
Index