Clothed in the body : asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era / / Hannah Hunt.
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| Superior document: | Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 237 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.