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In our age of ecological crisis, what insights—if any—can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside from the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of dominion, Burrus directs ou...
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Burrus, Virginia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Ancient Christian Ecopoetics : Cosmologies, Saints, Things / Virginia Burrus. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2019 1 online resource (296 p.) : 15 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. BEGINNING AGAIN WITH KHORA: TRACES OF A DARK COSMOLOGY -- II. QUEERING CREATION: HAGIOGRAPHY WITHOUT HUMANS -- III. THINGS AND PRACTICES: ARTS OF COEXISTENCE -- EPILOGUE: WORM STORIES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In our age of ecological crisis, what insights—if any—can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside from the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of dominion, Burrus directs our attention to aspects of ancient Christian thought and practice that remain strange and alien. Drawn to excess and transgression, in search of transformation, early Christians creatively reimagined the universe and the human, cultivating relationships with a wide range of other beings—animal, vegetable, and mineral; angelic and demonic; divine and earthly; large and small.In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between early Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought. In the first section, she explores how the mysterious figure of khora, drawn from Plato's Timaeus, haunts Christian and Jewish accounts of a creation envisioned as varyingly monstrous, unstable, and unknowable. In the second section, she explores how hagiographical literature queers notions of nature and places the very category of the human into question, in part by foregrounding the saint's animality, in part by writing the saint into the landscape. The third section considers material objects, as small as portable relics and icons, as large as church and monastery complexes. Ancient Christians considered all of these animate beings, simultaneously powerful and vulnerable, protective and in need of protection, lovable and loving. Viewed through the shifting lenses of an ancient ecopoetics, Burrus demonstrates how humans both loomed large and shrank to invisibility, absorbed in the rapture of a strange and animate ecology. 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 26. Mai 2021) Christian hagiography History To 1500. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Cosmology, Ancient. Ecology Religious aspects Christianity. Material culture Religious aspects. RELIGION / Christianity / History. bisacsh Ancient Studies. Classics. Cultural Studies. Gay Studies. Lesbian Studies. Literature. Queer Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Frontlist Package 2019 9783110652055 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295726 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295726 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812295726.jpg |
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