The garb of being : embodiment and the pursuit of holiness in late ancient Christianity /

This collection of essays explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique practice and religious imagination through stories from the eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies from antiquity subject to modern interpretations.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Frank, Georgia, 1963- (Éditeur intellectuel), Holman, Susan R. (Éditeur intellectuel), Jacobs, Andrew S., 1973- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
Collection:Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought.
Sujets:
30-600
Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Holiness.
Christian literature, Early.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Corps humain > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Sainteté.
Littérature chrétienne primitive.
Église > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
RELIGION > Christian Theology > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Dangling bodies, robes of glory : the garb of embodiment in ancient Christianity / Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, Andrew S. Jacobs
  • Body and soul : union in creation, reunion at resurrection / Frances Young
  • Jesus's dazzling garments : Origen's exegesis of the transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew / Arthur P. Urbano
  • Conversing with clothes : Germanos and Mary's belt / Thomas Arentzen
  • "Denominationalism" in fourth-century Syria : readings in Saint Ephraem's Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22-24 / Sidney H. Griffith
  • A school for the soul : John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the force of ritual habit / Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos
  • A question of character : the "labor of composition" as "preventative medicine" in Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Religious History / Rebecca Krawiec
  • "I want to be alone" : ascetic celebrity and the splendid isolation of Simeon Stylites / Andrew S. Jacobs
  • Crowds and collective affect in Romanos's biblical retellings / Georgia Frank
  • Christian legend in medieval Iraq : siblings, sacrifice, and sanctity in Behnam and Sarah / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Five women martyrs : from Persia to Crete / Sebastian Brock
  • Gregory of Nazianzus's poetic ascetic aesthetic / Suzanne Abrams Rebillard
  • Eclipsed in exile : in defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians / Bernadette McNary-Zak
  • Sacred bonds : religion, relationships, and the art of pedagogy / Constance M. Furey
  • "And yet the books" : Patristics in the footnotes / Susan R. Holman
  • Cultural heritage preservation and canon formation : what Syriac and Coptic can teach us about the historiography of the digital humanities / Caroline T. Schroeder.

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