Reading Renunciation : Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity
A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examina...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2001.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning."Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecia. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (360 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781400823185 |