Body and Society Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

Name: Body and Society Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
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ISBN: 9780231144070

ISBN-10: 0231144075

ISBN-13: 9780231144070

Edition: 20th 2008 (Anniversary)

Authors: Peter Brown

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First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Societywas a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East. To mark the twentieth anniversary of its publication, Columbia will make available an edition that features a new introduction by the author. Brown will discuss the reception of the book since its debut in the scholarly community as well as the influential thought and literature it has produced. The Body and Societyfocuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. Brown follows early…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



From Paul to Anthony



Body and City



From Apostle to Apologist: Sexual Order and Sexual Renunciation in the Early Church



Martyrdom, Prophecy and Continence: Hermas to Tertullian



"To Undo the Works of Women": Marcion, Tatian, and the Encratites



"When You Make the Two One": Valentinus and Gnostic Spiritual Guidance



"A Faint Image of Divine Providence": Clement of Alexandria



"A Promiscuous Brotherhood and Sisterhood": Men and Women in the Christian Churches



"I Beseech You: Be Transformed": Origen



"Walking on Earth, Touching High Heaven's Vault": Porphyry and Methodius



Church and Body: Cyprian, Mani and Eusebius of Caesarea



Asceticism and Society in the Eastern Empire



The Desert Fathers: Anthony to John Climacus



"Make to Yourselves Separate Booths": Monks, Women and Marriage in Egypt



"Daughters of Jerusalem": The Ascetic Life of Women in the Fourth Century



Marriage and Mortality: Gregory of Nyssa



Sexuality and the City: John Chrysostom



"These Are Our Angels": Syria



Ambrose to Augustine: The Making of the Latin Tradition



Aula Pudoris: Ambrose



"Learn of Me a Holy Arrogance": Jerome



Sexuality and Society: Augustine


Epilogue: Body and Society: The Early Middle Ages


Bibliography


Index