Clothed in the body : asceticism, the body, and the spiritual in the late antique era /: asceticism, the body, and the spiritual in the late antique era. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hannah Hunt.
• Other Names: Hunt, Hannah
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (250 pages)
• Subjects: 233/.509; Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317164944; 1317164946
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.