Clothed in the body asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era - Hunt, Hannah (Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2012)
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.
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Keywords: 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.; Electronic books