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Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era
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This book explores religious anthropology and asceticism from its biblical and desert roots and within eastern patristic writers including Ephrem, Pseudo-Macarius and Climacus. Hunt examines the ap...
This book explores religious anthropology and asceticism from its biblical and desert roots and within eastern patristic writers including Ephrem, Pseudo-Macarius and Climacus. Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life.
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- Creator
- Hannah Hunt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781409409144, 9781409409151, 1409409147, 9786613654748, 1317164946, 1409409155, 131557246X, 1280677813
- OCLC
- ocn802056306, on1018164702, ocn795120315
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- English
- 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