Pseudo Athanasius On Virginity

Author : David Brakke
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9042910801

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On virginity by David Brakke Pdf

This late ancient Christian treatise, preserved in Syriac and falsely attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria (d. 373), exhorts female virgins to be "holy in body and spirit" (1 Cor. 7:34) and to abstain from "all that is in the world - the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches" (1 John 1:16). Drawing on themes developed in the de virginitate literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, the author instructs virgins on their proper physical deportment and use of the five senses, but he incorporates into his work exhortations to purity and repentance originally addressed to a wider audience of male and female ascetics and perhaps even laity. Most likely a translation of a Greek original composed between the fifth and ninth centuries, the treatise is of interest also for its frequent and inventive use of the Bible in support of the ascetic ideal.

Author : Alexandrinus Athanasius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2877236064

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Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity by Alexandrinus Athanasius Pdf

Author : Pseudo-Athanasius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Syriac language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112323998

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Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity by Pseudo-Athanasius Pdf

Author : Atanasio (Santo.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:949044993

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Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity by Atanasio (Santo.) Pdf

Author : Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fathers of the church, Syriac
ISBN : 9042910801

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Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity by Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria) Pdf

Author : Richard Valantasis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691188164

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Religions of Late Antiquity in Practice by Richard Valantasis Pdf

This is an unprecedented collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. These texts--all in new English translation and many appearing in English for the first time--represent every major religious current from the late first century until the rise of Islam. Produced through the efforts of thirty-six leading scholars in the field, they constitute a comprehensive view of religious practice in Late Antiquity. Religious life and performance during this period comprised diverse, often unusual practices. Philosophical ascent, magic, legal pronouncement, hymnography, dietary and sexual restriction, and rhetoric were all part of this deeply fascinating world. Religious and political identity often intertwined, as reflected in the Roman persecution of Christians. And a fluid boundary between religion and superstition was contested in daily life. Many practices, including ascetic training, crossed religious boundaries. Others, such as "incubation" at specific temples and certain divination rites, were distinctive practices of individual groups and orders. Intrinsically interesting, the practice of religion in the Late Antique also edifies modern-day religious life. As this volume shows, the origins of the contemporary Western religious terrain can be gleaned in this period. Rabbinic Judaism flourished and spread. Christianity developed still-important theological categories and structures. And even movements that did not survive intact--such as Neoplatonism and the once-powerful Manichaean churches--continue to influence religion today. This rich sourcebook includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom, religion's social implications, law, and theology. Its unique emphasis on practice and its inclusion of texts translated from lesser-known languages advance the study of religious history in several directions. A strong interdisciplinary orientation will reward scholars and students of religion, theology, gender studies, classical literatures, and history. Each text is accompanied by an introduction and a bibliography for further reading and research, making the book appropriate for use in any university or seminary classroom.

Author : Pseudo-Athanasius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Syriac language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112323980

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Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity by Pseudo-Athanasius Pdf

Author : Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Virginity
ISBN : NYPL:33433031669991

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Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity by Saint Athanasius (Patriarch of Alexandria) Pdf

Author : David Brakke
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Syriac language
ISBN : 9042910917

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Kelten en de Nederlanden van prehistorie tot heden by David Brakke Pdf

Author : Julia Kelto Lillis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520389021

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Virgin Territory by Julia Kelto Lillis Pdf

Women's virginity held tremendous significance in early Christianity and the Mediterranean world. Early Christian thinkers developed diverse definitions of virginity and understood its bodily aspects in surprising, often nonanatomical ways. Eventually Christians took part in a cross-cultural shift toward viewing virginity as something that could be perceived in women's sex organs. Treating virginity as anatomical brought both benefits and costs. By charting this change and situating it in the larger landscape of ancient thought, Virgin Territory illuminates unrecognized differences among early Christian sources and historicizes problematic ideas about women's bodies that still persist today.

Author : Dyan Elliott
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812206937

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The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell by Dyan Elliott Pdf

The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "bride of Christ" to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience. Henceforth, the virgin as Christ's spouse was expected to manifest matronly modesty and due submission, hobbling virginity's ancient capacity to destabilize gender roles. In the early Middle Ages, the focus on virginity and the attendant anxiety over its possible loss reinforced the emphasis on claustration in female religious communities, while also profoundly disparaging the nonvirginal members of a given community. With the rising importance of intentionality in determining a person's spiritual profile in the high Middle Ages, the title of bride could be applied and appropriated to laywomen who were nonvirgins as well. Such instances of democratization coincided with the rise of bridal mysticism and a progressive somatization of female spirituality. These factors helped cultivate an increasingly literal and eroticized discourse: women began to undergo mystical enactments of their union with Christ, including ecstatic consummations and vivid phantom pregnancies. Female mystics also became increasingly intimate with their confessors and other clerical confidants, who were sometimes represented as stand-ins for the celestial bridegroom. The dramatic merging of the spiritual and physical in female expressions of religiosity made church authorities fearful, an anxiety that would coalesce around the figure of the witch and her carnal induction into the Sabbath.

Author : Ville Vuolanto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317167853

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Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity by Ville Vuolanto Pdf

In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. This is the first book to scrutinise the interplay between family, children and asceticism in the rise of Christianity. Drawing on texts of Christian authors of the late fourth and early fifth centuries the volume approaches the study of family dynamics and childhood from both ideological and social historical perspectives. It examines the place of children in the family in Christian ideology and explores how families in the late Roman world adapted these ideals in practice. Offering fresh viewpoints to current scholarship Ville Vuolanto demonstrates that there were many continuities in Roman ways of thinking about children and, despite the rise of Christianity, the old traditions remained deeply embedded in the culture. Moreover, the discussions about family and children are shown to have been intimately linked to worries about the continuity of family lineage and of the self, and to the changing understanding of what constituted a meaningful life.

Author : Tim Perry
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830825691

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Mary for Evangelicals by Tim Perry Pdf

With his feet planted firmly in the evangelical tradition, Tim Perry began to think that there must be more to Mary than generally meets the evangelical eye. Should we maintain that two thousand years of Christian thought on Mary is almost wholly wrong? How could the mother of our Lord, simply by virtue of the fact that she was God's chosen means of the incarnation, not deserve more serious theological reflection? And where might this lead? Beginning with Scripture, Perry probes the texts and traces the lengthy development of Christian thinking and practice related to Mary. Finally he concludes with a constructive and even surprising theological proposal for an evangelical Mariology that is rooted in, and demanded by, a high Christology. This book addresses the increasing evangelical interest in Mary and contributes to the current discussion of Mariology in evangelical-Roman Catholic dialogue. Sure to be discussed and debated, this is a book that will leave readers in a different place from where they began. Market/Audience Students and professors of theology Pastors Catholic readers Endorsements "From the fathers to the feminists, Tim Perry surveys the history of Marian traditions and comes to some conclusions that are bound to prod and provoke. . . .This is an important study that deserves serious consideration." Timothy George, dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, and executive editor, Christianity Today Features and Benefits Examines what we know of Mary from the New Testament. Explores the development of Mariology in the patristic period. Surveys Mariology in medieval and Reformation periods and on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Offers a constructive theological proposal for an evangelical understanding of Mary, rooted in Christology.

Author : Lisabeth During
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226741635

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The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During Pdf

In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved, honored, and despised. Obsession with chastity has played a powerful and disturbing role in our moral imagination. It has enforced patriarchy’s double standards, complicated sexual relations, and imbedded in Western culture a myth of gender that has been long contested by feminists. Still not yet fully understood, the chastity plot remains with us, and the metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. Idealized and unattainable, sexual renunciation has shaped social institutions, political power, ethical norms, and clerical abuses. It has led to destruction and passion, to seductive fantasies that inspired saints and provoked libertines. As During shows, it should not be underestimated. Examining literature, religion, psychoanalysis, and cultural history from antiquity through the middle ages and into modernity, During provides a sweeping history of chastity and insight into its subversive potential. Instead of simply asking what chastity is, During considers what chastity can do, why we should care, and how it might provide a productive disruption, generating new ways of thinking about sex, integrity, and freedom.

Author : Cornelia B. Horn,John W. Martens
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813216744

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"Let the Little Children Come to Me" by Cornelia B. Horn,John W. Martens Pdf

Providing a wealth of detail about childhood and family structure, this book explores the hidden lives of children at the origins of Christianity. "Let the Little Children Come to Me" pays careful attention to the impact of gender, class, and slave status on children's lives.