Violated and Transcended Bodies: Gender, Martyrdom, and Asceticism in Early Christianity
Author:   Gail P. Streete (Rhodes College, Memphis)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   75
Publication Date:   03 June 2021
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Violated and Transcended Bodies: Gender, Martyrdom, and Asceticism in Early Christianity


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Given its eschatological orientation and its marginal position in the Roman Empire, emergent Christianity found embodiment, as an aspect of being in the world, problematic. Those identified and identifying as Christians developed two broad responses to that world as they embraced the idea of being in, yet not of it. The first response, martyrdom, was witness to the strength their faith gave to fragile bodies, particularly those of women, and the ability by suffering to overcome bodily limitation and attain the resurrection life. The second, asceticism, complemented and later continued martyrdom as a means of bodily transcendence and participation in the spiritual world.

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Author:   Gail P. Streete (Rhodes College, Memphis)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 17.50cm
Weight:   0.082kg
ISBN:  

9781009054157


ISBN 10:   1009054155
Pages:   75
Publication Date:   03 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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1. About Bodies, Gender, and Identity; 2. Equal Opportunity: Martyrs and Ascetics; 3. Martyrdom as Asceticism: Thecla and the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles; 4. Bodies that Save the World; Abbreviations; Bibliography.

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