Reading Renunciation : Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Clark, Elizabeth A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bible.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Asceticism > Early church.
RELIGION > History.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Discipleship.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Spiritual Growth.
Ascetisme > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Asceticism > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 pages).
ISBN:9781400823185

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