TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Patricia Cox TI - Women in early Christianity: translations from Greek texts SN - 9780813216300 AV - BR195.W6 W66 2005eb U1 - 270.1/082 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Catholic University of America Press KW - Women in Christianity KW - History KW - Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Sources KW - Femmes dans le christianisme KW - Histoire KW - ca 30-600 (Église primitive) KW - Frau KW - swd KW - Frühchristentum KW - Femmes et christianisme KW - Église KW - 30-600 (Église primitive) KW - ram KW - RELIGION / Christianity / History KW - bisacsh KW - Early church KW - fast KW - RELIGION / Christian Church / History KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-332) and indexes; 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 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fgq5h UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813216300/ UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=943032 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018079.html ER -