The Body and Society – Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity 20e

PrefaceIntroductionPart I. From Paul to anthony1. Body and City2. From Apostle to Apologist: Sexual Order and Sexual Renunciation in the Early Church3. Martyrdom, Prophecy and Continence: Hermas to Tertullian4. To Undo the Works of Women : Marcion, Tatian and the Encratites5. When You Make the Two One : Valentinus and Gnostic Spiritual Guidance6. A Faint Image of Divine Providence : Clement of Alexandria7. A Promiscuous Brotherhood and Sisterhood : Men and Women in the Christian Churches8. I Beseech You: Be Transformed : Origen9. Walking on Earth, Touching High Heaven's Vault : Porphyry and Methodius10. Church and Body: Cyprian, Mani and Eusebius of CaesareaPart II. asceticism and Society in the Eastern Empire11. The Desert Fathers: Anthony to John Climacus12. Make to Yourselves Separate Booths : Monks, Women and Marriage in Egypt13. Daughters of Jerusalem : The Ascetic Life of Women in the Fourth Century14. Marriage and Mortality: Gregory of Nyssa15. Sexuality and the City:...

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