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The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity

Brown, Peter Robert Lamont.

Year: 1988.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

Part ONE FROM PAUL TO ANTHONY

1. Body and City

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

3. Martyrdom, Prophecy and Continence: Hermas to Tertullian

4. "To Undo the Works of Women": Marcion, Tatian, and the Encratities

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

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

7. "A Promiscuous Brotherhood and Sisterhood": Men and Women in The Early Churches

8. "I Beseech You: Be Transformed': Origen

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

10. Church and Body: Cyprian, Mani, and Eusebius of Caesarea

Part TWO ASCETISM AND SOCIETY IN THE EASTERN EMPIRE

11. The Desert Fathers: Anthony to John Climacus

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

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

14. Marriage and Mortality: Gregory of Nyssa

15. Sexuality and the City: John Chrysostom

16. "These Are Our Angels": Syria

Part THREE AMBROSE TO AUGUSTINE: THE MAKING OF THE LATIN TRADITION

17. Aula Pudoris: Ambrose

18. "Learn of Me a Holy Arrogance:" Jerome

19. Sexuality and Society: Augustine

Epilogue Body and Society: The Early Middle Ages

Bibliography

Index

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Title:

The body and society : men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity Peter Brown.

Author:

Brown, Peter Robert Lamont

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The body and society : men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity Peter Brown.
Brown, Peter Robert Lamont
New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

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Subject Headings:

• Celibacy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Virginity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
• Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600

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