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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brown, Peter, 1935-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, 1988.
Series:	Lectures on the history of religions ; new ser., no. 13.
Subjects:	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. Celibacy. Virginity. Sexual abstinence.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. 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
pt. 2. 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 in the city : John Chrysostom
"These are our angels" : Syria
pt. 3. Ambrose to Augustine : the making of the Latin tradition
Aula pudoris : Ambrose
"Learn of me a holy arrogance" : Jerome
Sexuality and society : Augustine
Body and society : the early middle ages.

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