Thorns in the Flesh : : Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity / / Andrew Crislip.
The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness...
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Crislip, Andrew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Thorns in the Flesh : Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity / Andrew Crislip. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012] ©2013 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of texts from the fourth through sixth centuries that reflect persistent and contentious attempts to make sense of the illness of the ostensibly holy. These sources include Lives of Antony, Paul, Pachomius, and others; theological treatises by Basil of Caesarea and Evagrius of Pontus; and collections of correspondence from the period such as the Letters of Barsanuphius and John.Through close readings of these texts, Crislip shows how late ancient Christians complicated and critiqued hagiographical commonplaces and radically reinterpreted illness as a valuable mode for spiritual and ascetic practice. Illness need not point to sin or failure, he demonstrates, but might serve in itself as a potent form of spiritual practice that surpasses even the most strenuous of ascetic labors and opens up the sufferer to a more direct knowledge of the self and the divine. Crislip provides a fresh and nuanced look at the contentious and dynamic theology of illness that emerged in and around the ascetic and monastic cultures of the later Roman world. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Asceticism History Early church, ca. 30-600. Diseases Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600. Human body Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600. Suffering Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600. Religious Studies. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Ancient Studies. Classics. Religion. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Religion 9783110413588 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812244458 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207200 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812207200 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812207200/original |
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