TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Hannah
TI  - Clothed in the Body: Asceticism, the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era
T2  - Ashgate Studies in Philosophy & Theology in Late Antiquity
SN  - 9781409409151 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BT741.3 .H86 2012 
U1  - 233233.5233.509 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Farnham
PB  - Ashgate Pub.
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Human body
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Theological anthropology
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / Anthropology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Sacred Sexuality
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - General Index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Greek Insights into the Human Person; 3 Biblical Understandings of Flesh, Body and Soul; 4 Desert Teachings on the Body and Asceticism; 5 'Virgins of God': Manly Women and Transvestite Saints; 7 The Syrian Perspective on Asceticism; 8 Key Syrian Sources: Apocrypha and Anonymity; 9 Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and Synaesthesia; 10 'Clothed in the Body' as a Metaphor for Incarnation; 11 Heterodox Christologies and the Heresiarchs; 12 Orthodox Patristic Formulations; 13 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of Biblical Terms
N2  - This book explores religious anthropology and asceticism from its biblical and desert roots and within eastern patristic writers including Ephrem, Pseudo-Macarius and Climacus. Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life
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