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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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