03354nam 2200685 a 450 991046230290332120200520144314.01-317-16494-61-280-67781-397866136547481-4094-0915-5(CKB)2670000000204115(EBL)932417(OCoLC)795120315(SSID)ssj0000677040(PQKBManifestationID)12265815(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677040(PQKBWorkID)10683377(PQKB)11719714(MiAaPQ)EBC932417(MiAaPQ)EBC5121999(Au-PeEL)EBL932417(CaPaEBR)ebr10568770(CaONFJC)MIL365474(Au-PeEL)EBL5121999(CaONFJC)MIL924818(OCoLC)1018164702(EXLCZ)99267000000020411520111215d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClothed in the body[electronic resource] asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era /Hannah HuntFarnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, Vt. Ashgatec20121 online resource (250 p.)Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquityDescription based upon print version of record.1-4094-0914-7 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.This book explores religious anthropology and asceticism from its biblical and desert roots and within eastern patristic writers including Ephrem, Pseudo-Macarius and Climacus. Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life.Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity.Human bodyReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600Theological anthropologyChristianityHistory of doctrinesEarly church, ca. 30-600AsceticismHistoryEarly church, ca. 30-600Electronic books.Human bodyReligious aspectsChristianityHistory of doctrinesTheological anthropologyChristianityHistory of doctrinesAsceticismHistory233/.509Hunt Hannah854487MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462302903321Clothed in the body2252726UNINA