In the Eye of the Animal : : Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity / / Patricia Cox Miller.
Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detaile...
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Miller, Patricia Cox, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut In the Eye of the Animal : Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity / Patricia Cox Miller. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (280 p.) : 11 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Animals and Figuration: The Case of Birds -- Chapter 2. The Pensivity of Animals, I: Zoomorphism -- Chapter 3. The Pensivity of Animals, II: Anthropomorphism -- Chapter 4. Wild Animals: Desert Ascetics and Their Companions -- Chapter 5. Small Things: The Vibrant Materiality of Tiny Creatures -- Afterword -- Appendix: Ancient Christian and Other Authors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detailed in Genesis—and when they appear, the distinctions between human and animal are often dissolved. How, asks Patricia Cox Miller, does one account for the stunning zoological imagination found in a wide variety of genres of ancient Christian texts?In the Eye of the Animal complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how textual and artistic images and interpretive procedures actually celebrated a continuum of human and animal life. Synthesizing early Christian studies, contemporary philosophy, animal studies, ethology, and modern poetry, Miller identifies two contradictory strands in early Christian thinking about animals. The dominant thread viewed the body and soul of the human being as dominical, or the crowning achievement of creation; animals, with their defective souls, related to humans only as reminders of the brutish physical form. However, the second strand relied upon the idea of a continuum of animal life, which enabled comparisons between animals and humans. This second tendency, explains Miller, arises particularly in early Christian literature in which ascetic identity, the body, and ethics intersect. She explores the tension between these modes by tracing the image of the animal in early Christian literature, from the ethical animal behavior on display in Basil of Caesarea's Hexaemeron and the anonymous Physiologus, to the role of animals in articulating erotic desire, and from the idyllic intimacy of monks and animals in literature of desert ascetism to early Christian art that envisions paradise through human-animal symbiosis. 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 04. Okt 2022) Animals (Philosophy). Animals Religious aspects Christianity. Animals Symbolic aspects Christianity. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Electronic books. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Ancient Studies. Classics. Religion. Religious Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig. Stud., Jewish Stud.2018 English 9783110604245 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theology, Relig. Studies, Jewish Studies 2018 9783110603248 ZDB-23-DGF Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295221 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295221 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812295221/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Animals and Figuration: The Case of Birds -- Chapter 2. The Pensivity of Animals, I: Zoomorphism -- Chapter 3. The Pensivity of Animals, II: Anthropomorphism -- Chapter 4. Wild Animals: Desert Ascetics and Their Companions -- Chapter 5. Small Things: The Vibrant Materiality of Tiny Creatures -- Afterword -- Appendix: Ancient Christian and Other Authors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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