Clark Reading Renunciation

Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2318-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Elizabeth A. Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University and the author of several books, including The Origenist Controversy (Princeton). She is the past president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the North American Patristics Society. She is the coeditor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Elizabeth A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviation List xv

CHAPTER ONE Introduction 3

CHAPTER TWO Asceticism in Late Ancient Christianity 14

Reading for Asceticism

CHAPTER THREE Reading in the Early Christian World 45

CHAPTER FOUR The Profits and Perils of Figurative Exegesis 70

CHAPTER FIVE Exegetical and Rhetorical Strategies for Ascetic Reading 104

CHAPTER SIX Three Models of Reading Renunciation 153

Rejection and Recuperation: The Old Dispensation and the New

CHAPTER SEVEN From Reproduction to Defamilialization 177

CHAPTER EIGHT From Ritual to Askesis 204

CHAPTER NINE The Exegesis of Divorce 233

Reading Paul

CHAPTER TEN I Corinthians 7 in Early Christian Exegesis 259

CHAPTER ELEVEN From Paul to the Pastorals 330

Afterword 371

Bibliograpky 375

Select Index of Biblical Passages 401

Select General Index 409

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth A. Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University and the author of several books, including The Origenist Controversy (Princeton). She is the past president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the North American Patristics Society. She is the coeditor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies.