Clothed in the body asceticism, the body, and the spiritual in the late antique era

Clothed in the body : asceticism, the body, and the spiritual in the late antique era / Hannah Hunt.

Author/creator	Hunt, Hannah
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
Description	xii, 237 p. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Human body--Religious aspects --Christianity --History of doctrines --Early church, ca. 30-600. Theological anthropology--Christianity --History of doctrines --Early church, ca. 30-600. Asceticism--History --Early church, ca. 30-600.

Series	Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity
Contents	Hellenistic insights into the human person -- Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul -- Desert teachings on the body and asceticism -- "Virgins of God": manly women and transvestite saints -- "Enemy" or "friend": Climacus's integration of the body -- The Syrian perspective on asceticism -- Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity -- Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia -- "Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation -- Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs -- Orthodox patristic formulations.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011050815
ISBN	9781409409144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781409409151 (ebook)

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