This Female Man of God
Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD
Seiten
1995
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-09469-6 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-09469-6 (ISBN)
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Takes a valuable and timely look at the contribution of women to the newly legitimate Christian Church. Examples include women who passed themselves off as men in order to serve God.
This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction: 'Holy Women'? 2. Patristic perceptions: the sources and the problem 3. Models for piety in a social context 4. 'Eunuchs for the love of heaven': avowed virginity 5. 'The continence which is aware of its own right': the order of widows 6. Married sanctity I 'The bed undefiled': Christian wifehood 7. Married sanctity II Christian motherhood 8. 'Not by office but by gifts of the spirit': the ministries of women 9. Conclusion: Holy 'women', the imago dei revisited Bibliography
| Verlagsort | London |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Reisen ► Reiseführer | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-09469-0 / 0415094690 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-09469-6 / 9780415094696 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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