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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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Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence of the modern West's emphasis on guilt, Burrus seeks to recuperate the importance of shame for Christian culture. Focusing on late antiquity, she explores a range of fascinating phenomena, from the flamboyant performances of martyrs to the imagined abjection of Christ, from the self-humiliating disciplines of ascetics to the intimate disclosures of Augustine. Burrus argues that Christianity innovated less by replacing shame with guilt than by embracing shame. Indeed, the ancient Christians sacrificed honor but laid claim to their own shame with great energy, at once intensifying and transforming it. Public spectacles of martyrdom became the most visible means through which vulnerability to shame was converted into a defiant witness of identity; this was also where the sacrificial death of the self exemplified by Christ's crucifixion was most explicitly appropriated by his followers. Shame showed a more private face as well, as Burrus demonstrates. The ambivalent lure of fleshly corruptibility was explored in the theological imaginary of incarnational Christology. It was further embodied in the transgressive disciplines of saints who plumbed the depths of humiliation. Eventually, with the advent of literary and monastic confessional practices, the shame of sin's inexhaustibility made itself heard in the revelations of testimonial discourse. In conversation with an eclectic constellation of theorists, Burrus interweaves her historical argument with theological, psychological, and ethical reflections. She proposes, finally, that early Christian texts may have much to teach us about the secrets of shame that lie at the heart of our capacity for humility, courage, and transformative love.
Shame --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Honte --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Christian moral theology --- Christian church history --- History of civilization --- 241.4 --- 265.6 --- 265.6 Boetesacrament. Biecht --- Boetesacrament. Biecht --- 241.4 Theologische ethiek: schuld; zonde; bekering; verzoening --- Theologische ethiek: schuld; zonde; bekering; verzoening --- Humiliation. --- Emotions --- Ancient Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature. --- Religion.
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Love --- Sex --- 241.64 --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- 241.64 Theologische ethiek: seksuele ethiek --- Theologische ethiek: seksuele ethiek --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Conferences - Meetings --- Religious studies --- Christian spirituality --- Religious aspects --- Love (Theology) --- Sex (Theology)
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