Andrew Crislip

Thorns in the Flesh

Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity

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Produktbeschreibung

In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip explores late ancient Christian reflections on the meaning and value of illness in ascetic practice. Overturning earlier assumptions about early Christian theology of illness, he reveals illness to be a persistent and controversial concern in early Christian debates about sanctity and asceticism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244458
• ISBN-10: 0812244451
• Artikelnr.: 35559419

Autorenporträt

Andrew Crislip

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Illness, Sanctity, and Asceticism in Antiquity: Approaches and
Contexts
Chapter 2. Asceticism, Health, and Christian Salvation History:
Perspectives from the Earliest Monastic Sources
Chapter 3. Paradise, Health, and the Hagiographical Imagination
Chapter 4. Choosing Illness: Illness as Ascetic Practice
Chapter 5. Pestilence and Sainthood: The Great Coptic Life of Our Father
Pachomius
Chapter 6. Illness and Spiritual Direction in Late Ancient Gaza: The
Correspondence of Barsanuphius and John with the Sick Monk Andrew
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments