Clothed in the body asceticism, the body, and the spiritual in the late antique era / Hannah Hunt.
| Author/creator | Hunt, Hannah |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, |
| Description | xii, 237 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |