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The body and society : men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity

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The body and society : men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity

Author:	Peter Brown
Publisher:	New York : Columbia University Press, 1988.
Series:	Lectures on the history of religions, new ser., no. 13.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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ISBN:	0231061005 9780231061001 0231061013 9780231061018
OCLC Number:	16981598
Notes:	Includes index.
Description:	xx, 504 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Contents:	pt. 1. From Paul to Anthony -- Body and city -- From apostle to apologist : sexual order and sexual renunciation in the early church -- Martyrdom, prophecy and continence : Hermas to Tertullian -- "To undo the works of women" : Marcion, Tatian, and the Encratites -- "When you make the two one" : Valentinus and gnostic spiritual guidance -- "A faint image of divine providence" : Clement of Alexandria -- "A promiscuous brotherhood and sisterhood" : men and women in the Christian churches -- "I beseech you : be transformed" : Origen -- "Walking on earth, touching high heaven's vault" : Porphyry and Methodius -- Church and body : Cyprian, Mani and Eusebius of Caesarea -- pt. 2. Asceticism and society in the Eastern empire -- The desert fathers : Anthony to John Climacus -- "Make to yourselves separate booths" : monks, women and marriage in Egypt -- "Daughters of Jerusalem" : the ascetic life of women in the fourth century -- Marriage and mortality : Gregory of Nyssa -- Sexuality in the city : John Chrysostom -- "These are our angels" : Syria -- pt. 3. Ambrose to Augustine : the making of the Latin tradition -- Aula pudoris : Ambrose -- "Learn of me a holy arrogance" : Jerome -- Sexuality and society : Augustine -- Body and society : the early middle ages.
Series Title:	Lectures on the history of religions, new ser., no. 13.
Responsibility:	Peter Brown.

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