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Christian church history --- anno 500-599 --- anno 1-499 --- Christian life --- Church history --- History --- 27 "04/06" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"04/06" --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Christian life - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Histoire ecclésiastique

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Nicene trinitarian doctrine (when the Trinity became for the first time the centrepiece of doctrinal orthodoxy) is important not only for theological innovation but also for the redefinition of manhood in the fourth century. Exploring the significance of this movement for the subsequent history of Western masculine ideals, the author directly engages, combines, and disrupts divergent perspectives of historical theology, late Roman cultural history, and French feminist theory, bringing contemporary theorist Luce Irigaray into dialogue with the Patristic corpus. The book centers on performative readings of Athanasius of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Ambrose of Milan, each of whom played a crucial role in defending Nicene trinitarian doctrine. Each also modelled a distinctive style of fourth-century masculine self-fashioning. The concluding chapter considers the sum of these three figures from an explicitly feminist theological and theoretical perspective.

233 --- De mens. Theologische antropologie --- Masculinity --- Men (Christian theology) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History of doctrines. --- Gregory, --- Ambrose, --- Athanasius, --- Nicene Creed. --- Theological anthropology --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- Ghirīghūriyūs, --- Grégoire, --- Gregor, --- Gregori, --- Gregorio, --- Grēgorios, --- Gregorius, --- Grigoli, --- Grigoriĭ, --- Grzegorz, --- Qiddīs Ghirīghūriyūs Usquf Nīṣṣ, --- Afanasiĭ, --- Aḟanasīĭ Velikīĭ, --- Atanasio, --- Atanazy, --- Atanazy Wielki, --- Athanase, --- Athanasios, --- Athanāsiyūs, --- Athnāsiyūs, --- Bābā Athanāsiyūs Baṭriyark al-Iskandarīyah, --- أثناسيوس، --- بابا اثناسيوس بطريرك الإسكندرية --- Atanasie cel Mare, --- Pseudo-Athanasius --- Ambrogio, --- Ambroise, --- Ambrosio, --- Ambrosius Mediolanensis, --- Ambrosius, --- Ambrosius von Mailand, --- Amvrosīĭ, --- Aurelio Ambrogio, --- Aurelius Ambrosius, --- Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed --- Symbolum Nicaenum --- Nicaenische Glaubensbekenntnis --- Nizänisches Glaubensbekenntnis --- Constantinopolitan Creed --- Credo des Conciles de Nicée-Constantinople --- Symbolum Constantinopolitanum --- Glaubensbekenntnis von Nizäa-Konstantinopel --- Nikaian-Konstantinopolin uskontunnustus --- NK --- Σύμβολον της Πίστεως --- Symvolon tēs Pisteōs --- Icon/Symbol of the Faith --- Profession of Faith of the 318 Fathers --- Profession of Faith of the 150 Fathers --- Credo (Nicene Creed) --- Grigorije, --- Афанасий, --- Gregorius Nyssenus --- Gregor von Nyssa --- Gregorio di Nissa --- Gregorius van Nyssa --- Gregory of Nyssa --- Grégoire de Nysse --- Atanasije Aleksandrijski, --- Athanasios Alexandreias, --- Ambrogio --- Ambroise --- Ambrose --- Ambrosio --- Ambrosius Mediolanensis --- Ambrosius --- Ambrosius von Mailand --- Amvrosīĭ --- Aurelio Ambrogio --- Aurelius Ambrosius

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Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles --- Celibacy --- Women in Christianity --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History --- 229*42 --- 229*42 Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Apocriefe handelingen der apostelen van Andreas, Barnabas, Philippus, Jacobus, Johannes, Matthaeus, Paulus, Petrus, Pilatus, Thomas, Paulus en Thecla, Petrus en Paulus --- Clerical celibacy --- Clergy --- Sexual abstinence --- Acts (Apocryphal books) --- Acts of the Apostles (Apocryphal books) --- Apocryphal books (New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Religious aspects

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Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.Without reducing the erotics of ancient hagiography to a single formula, The Sex Lives of Saints frames the broad historical, theological, and theoretical issues at stake in such a revisionist interpretation of ascetic eroticism, with particular reference to the work of Michel Foucault and Georges Bataille, David Halperin and Geoffrey Harpham, Leo Bersani and Jean Baudrillard. Burrus subsequently proceeds through close, performative readings of the earliest Lives of Saints, mostly dating to the late fourth and early fifth centuries-Jerome's Lives of Paul, Malchus, Hilarion, and Paula; Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina; Augustine's portrait of Monica; Sulpicius Severus's Life of Martin; and the slightly later Lives of so-called harlot saints. Queer, s/m, and postcolonial theories are among the contemporary discourses that prove intriguingly resonant with an ancient art of "saintly" loving that remains, in Burrus's reading, promisingly mobile, diverse, and open-ended.

Sex --- Christian hagiography --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines. --- History --- Ancient Studies. --- Gender Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Women's Studies.

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In our age of ecological crisis, what insights-if any-can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside from the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of dominion, Burrus directs our attention to aspects of ancient Christian thought and practice that remain strange and alien. Drawn to excess and transgression, in search of transformation, early Christians creatively reimagined the universe and the human, cultivating relationships with a wide range of other beings-animal, vegetable, and mineral; angelic and demonic; divine and earthly; large and small.In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between early Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought. In the first section, she explores how the mysterious figure of khora, drawn from Plato's Timaeus, haunts Christian and Jewish accounts of a creation envisioned as varyingly monstrous, unstable, and unknowable. In the second section, she explores how hagiographical literature queers notions of nature and places the very category of the human into question, in part by foregrounding the saint's animality, in part by writing the saint into the landscape. The third section considers material objects, as small as portable relics and icons, as large as church and monastery complexes. Ancient Christians considered all of these animate beings, simultaneously powerful and vulnerable, protective and in need of protection, lovable and loving. Viewed through the shifting lenses of an ancient ecopoetics, Burrus demonstrates how humans both loomed large and shrank to invisibility, absorbed in the rapture of a strange and animate ecology.

Ecology --- Church history --- Cosmology, Ancient. --- Christian hagiography --- Material culture --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History --- Religious aspects. --- Ancient Studies. --- Classics. --- Cultural Studies. --- Gay Studies. --- Lesbian Studies. --- Literature. --- Queer Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies.