translations from Greek textsMiller, Patricia Cox1947-textbibliographyElectronic books.History.Sources.dcu2005First edition.monographicenggrc1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages)Women's roles in the church. Teachers. Marcellina ; Melania the Younger ; Macrina ; Women, the church, and teaching -- Prophets. Disciples of Marcus ; Montanists -- Martyrs. Blandina ; Agathonicê ; Potamiaena -- Catechumens -- Widows. New Testament ; Second-century correspondence ; Third-century church rules -- Deaconesses. Writings opposed to women's ecclesiastical duties -- Women and virginity. Female comportment -- Major treatises on virginity. Methodius, The symposium ; Gregory of Nyssa, On virginity ; John Chrysostom, On virginity -- The subintroductae. Athanasius, Second letter to virgins ; John Chrysostom, Instruction and refutation directed against those men cohabiting with virgins ; John Chrysostom, On the necessity of guarding virginity -- Transvestism -- Portraits of ascetic women. Ascetic heroines in literature. Thecla ; Xanthippe and Polyxena ; Maximilla -- Biographies of ascetic leaders. Macrina ; Melania the Elder ; Melania the Younger ; Olympias -- Women in desert asceticism. The nun who feigned madness ; Pelagia ; Theodora, Sarah, and Syncletica -- Women and domestic life. Marriage. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7 ; Hermas, The shepherd ; Clement of Alexandria, The pedagogue ; Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies ; John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on 1st Corinthians ; John Chrysostom, The kind of women who ought to be taken as wives ; John Chrysostom, Homily 20 on Ephesians -- Praise for mothers and sisters. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia ; Gregory of Nazianzus on his mother, Nonna ; John Chrysostom, On the priesthood -- Female imagery and theology. Eve-Mary theme. Eve ; Eve and Mary -- Marian literature. Marian biography ; Virgin and mother of God ; Marian cult ; The other Mary -- Female images and metaphors. God as mother ; The "woman clothed with the sun" ; The church personified as a woman ; The soul as female ; The Virtues as female -- Timeline of early Christian women -- Timeline of early Christian authors and texts.[edited by] Patricia Cox Miller.Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-332) and indexes.Translated from the Greek.Women in ChristianityHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600SourcesFemmes dans le christianismeHistoireca 30-600 (Église primitive)SourcesFrauFrühchristentumFemmes et christianismeÉglise30-600 (Église primitive)SourcesRELIGION / Christianity / HistoryWomen in ChristianityEarly churchRELIGION / Christian Church / History 30 - 600 fast BR195.W6 W66 2005eb270.1/082BO 2030First edition(DLC) 2004018079(OCoLC)561922069780813216300081321630322573/ctt3ck7wv JSTORhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fgq5hhttp://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813216300/http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=943032http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018079.htmlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fgq5hhttp://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813216300/http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=943032http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018079.htmlJSTOR13103120200709060323.0ocn861793346eng