The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christiani…
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Columbia Classics in Religion) by Brown, Peter [Paperback]
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Columbia Classics in Religion) by Brown, Peter [Paperback]
Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN 13: 9780231144070. Author: Peter Brown ISBN 10: 0231144075. Binding: Paperback Language: english.
Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers.
Preface Introduction Part I. From Paul to anthony 1. Body and City 2. Martyrdom, Prophecy and Continence: Hermas to Tertullian 4. "When You Make the Two One": Valentinus and Gnostic Spiritual Guidance 6.
In his new introduction, Brown reflects on his work's reception in the scholarly community. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers.
Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN 13: 9780231144070.
This textbook is the one the professor assigned for the entire semester.
Peter Brown. Columbia 2008. light wear, light crease to cover, solid book with unmarked pages, see photos.