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The sophistication of [Burrus's] interdisciplinary research on shame in affect psychology and related social scientific disciplines is readily self-evident. Saving Shame is a cogent apologia for reinterpreting the multiple faces of shame not only for historians of antiquity and early church history, but for social and intellectual historians of medieval, early modern, and modern church history as well as for historical theologians. -Sixteenth Century Journal Burrus presents a provocative thesis that should encourage scholars to rethink their readings of early Christian sources. Her use of the shame-pride axis successfully demonstrates that Christians embraced shame and transformed it into a distinct form of identity politics. Additionally, she effectively illustrates that confessions were exhibitions of Christian shame designed to temper numerous sins, including pride, in hope of receiving God's loving mercy. -Speculum [Burrus's] findings . . . will give scholars pause to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions that we often bring to the study of this topic and period. Her work shows that there is still plenty of intellectual room to roam in the landscape of Greco-Roman and late antique Christian scholarship. -The Medieval Review An intellectually rich exploration of the theological dimensions of shame in early Christian literature. -David Brakke, Indiana University

"""An intellectually rich exploration of the theological dimensions of shame in early Christian literature.""—David Brakke, Indiana University ""[Burrus's] findings . . . will give scholars pause to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions that we often bring to the study of this topic and period. Her work shows that there is still plenty of intellectual room to roam in the landscape of Greco-Roman and late antique Christian scholarship.""—The Medieval Review ""Burrus presents a provocative thesis that should encourage scholars to rethink their readings of early Christian sources. Her use of the shame-pride axis successfully demonstrates that Christians embraced shame and transformed it into a distinct form of identity politics. Additionally, she effectively illustrates that confessions were exhibitions of Christian shame designed to temper numerous sins, including pride, in hope of receiving God's loving mercy.""—Speculum ""The sophistication of [Burrus's] interdisciplinary research on shame in affect psychology and related social scientific disciplines is readily self-evident. Saving Shame is a cogent apologia for reinterpreting the multiple faces of shame not only for historians of antiquity and early church history, but for social and intellectual historians of medieval, early modern, and modern church history as well as for historical theologians.""—Sixteenth Century Journal"

An intellectually rich exploration of the theological dimensions of shame in early Christian literature. -David Brakke, Indiana University [Burrus's] findings . . . will give scholars pause to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions that we often bring to the study of this topic and period. Her work shows that there is still plenty of intellectual room to roam in the landscape of Greco-Roman and late antique Christian scholarship. -The Medieval Review Burrus presents a provocative thesis that should encourage scholars to rethink their readings of early Christian sources. Her use of the shame-pride axis successfully demonstrates that Christians embraced shame and transformed it into a distinct form of identity politics. Additionally, she effectively illustrates that confessions were exhibitions of Christian shame designed to temper numerous sins, including pride, in hope of receiving God's loving mercy. -Speculum The sophistication of [Burrus's] interdisciplinary research on shame in affect psychology and related social scientific disciplines is readily self-evident. Saving Shame is a cogent apologia for reinterpreting the multiple faces of shame not only for historians of antiquity and early church history, but for social and intellectual historians of medieval, early modern, and modern church history as well as for historical theologians. -Sixteenth Century Journal

The sophistication of [Burrus's] interdisciplinary research on shame in affect psychology and related social scientific disciplines is readily self-evident. Saving Shame is a cogent apologia for reinterpreting the multiple faces of shame not only for historians of antiquity and early church history, but for social and intellectual historians of medieval, early modern, and modern church history as well as for historical theologians. --Sixteenth Century Journal Burrus presents a provocative thesis that should encourage scholars to rethink their readings of early Christian sources. Her use of the shame-pride axis successfully demonstrates that Christians embraced shame and transformed it into a distinct form of identity politics. Additionally, she effectively illustrates that confessions were exhibitions of Christian shame designed to temper numerous sins, including pride, in hope of receiving God's loving mercy. --Speculum [Burrus's] findings . . . will give scholars pause to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions that we often bring to the study of this topic and period. Her work shows that there is still plenty of intellectual room to roam in the landscape of Greco-Roman and late antique Christian scholarship. --The Medieval Review An intellectually rich exploration of the theological dimensions of shame in early Christian literature. --David Brakke, Indiana University

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Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is author of Ancient Christian Ecopoetics and The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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