03300nam 22005295 450 991025522200332120200704043714.03-319-64750-410.1007/978-3-319-64750-0(CKB)4100000000882792(DE-He213)978-3-319-64750-0(MiAaPQ)EBC5091119(EXLCZ)99410000000088279220171006d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts[electronic resource] /by Deborah Niederer Saxon1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XV, 213 p. 1 illus.)The Bible and Cultural Studies3-319-64749-0 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.1. Introduction -- 2. The Importance of the Care of the Self in the History of Early Christ Movements -- 3. Martyrdom Represented as Care of the Self in the Texts of Clement, Ignatius and Polycarp -- 4. Competing Visions of the Care of the Self in the Apocalypse of Peter, the Testimony of Truth, Fragments of Basilides and Valentinus, and the Gospel of Judas -- 5. Complementary Representations of the Care of the Self in the Gospel of Mary and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity -- 6. The Two Poles of Parrhēsia and Concluding Remarks.This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented as self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of “orthodoxy” versus “heresy”/”Gnosticism.”.The Bible and Cultural StudiesBible—TheologyReligion—PhilosophyReligion and sociologyBiblical Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/1A3140Philosophy of Religionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E33000Sociology of Religionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22210Bible—Theology.Religion—Philosophy.Religion and sociology.Biblical Studies.Philosophy of Religion.Sociology of Religion.230.041Niederer Saxon Deborahauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut990523BOOK9910255222003321The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts2266017UNINA