LEADER 04383nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910788579803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89625-7 010 $a0-8122-0435-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204353 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064691 035 $a(OCoLC)794700613 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641549 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606699 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11359774 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606699 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582384 035 $a(PQKB)11020810 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8274 035 $a(DE-B1597)449348 035 $a(OCoLC)979954209 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204353 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441714 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441714 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064691 100 $a20100603d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpecters of Paul$b[electronic resource] $esexual difference in early Christian thought /$fBenjamin H. Dunning 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 225 1 $aDivinations : rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4307-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe many become one : theological monism and the problem of the female body -- Desire and the feminine : Clement of Alexandria's displacement of Eve -- What sort of thing is this luminous woman? : sexual dimorphism in on the origin of the world -- Virgin earth, virgin birth : Irenaeus of Lyons and the predicaments of recapitulation -- The contrary operation : resignifying the unpenetrated body in Tertullian of Carthage. 330 $aThe first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christian thinking. Rather, early Christians found ways to exercise theological creativity and to think differently from one another as they probed the enigma of sexually differentiated bodies.In Specters of Paul, Benjamin H. Dunning explores this variety in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled, shaped, and also constrained approaches to the issue. Paul articulates his vision of what it means to be human primarily by situating human beings between two poles: creation (Adam) and resurrection (Christ). But within this framework, where does one place the figure of Eve-and the difference that her female body represents?Dunning demonstrates that this dilemma impacted a range of Christian thinkers in the centuries immediately following the apostle, including Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus of Lyons, Tertullian of Carthage, and authors from the Nag Hammadi corpus. While each of these thinkers attempts to give the difference of the feminine a coherent place within a Pauline typological framework, Dunning shows that they all fail to deliver fully on the coherence that they promise. Instead, sexual difference haunts the Pauline discourse of identity and sameness as the difference that can be neither fully assimilated nor fully ejected-a conclusion with important implications not only for early Christian history but also for feminist and queer philosophy and theology. 410 0$aDivinations. 606 $aWomen$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aSex differences$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 610 $aAncient Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aWomen$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aSex differences$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 676 $a233/.5 700 $aDunning$b Benjamin H$01467606 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788579803321 996 $aSpecters of Paul$93678331 997 $aUNINA