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Book Portrait of the Consecrated Woman in Greek Christian Literature of the First Four Centuries

Download or read book Portrait of the Consecrated Woman in Greek Christian Literature of the First Four Centuries written by M. Rosamond Nugent (o.s.f.) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portrait of the Consecrated Woman in Greek Christian Literature of the First Four Centuries

Download or read book Portrait of the Consecrated Woman in Greek Christian Literature of the First Four Centuries written by M. Rosamond Nugent and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portrait of the Consecrated Woman in Greek Christian Literature of the First 4 Centuries

Download or read book Portrait of the Consecrated Woman in Greek Christian Literature of the First 4 Centuries written by Mary Rosamond Nugent and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies written by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and published by Oxford Handbooks Online. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.

Book The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature written by Dawn LaValle Norman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early Christian dialogue with an all-female cast makes us rethink how literature was changing during the third century CE.

Book Patristic Studies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catholic University of America
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 790 pages

Download or read book Patristic Studies written by Catholic University of America and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daughters of the Church

Download or read book Daughters of the Church written by Ruth A. Tucker and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich in historical events and colorfully written, this fascinating account of women in the church spans nearly two thousand years of church history. It tells of events and aspirations, determination and disappointment, patience and achievement that mark the history of daughters of the church from the time of Jesus to the present. The authors have endeavored to present an objective story. The very fact that readers may find themselves surprised now and again by the prominent role of women in certain events and movements proves an inequality that historical narrative has often been guilty of. This is a book about women. It is a setting straight off the record -- a restoring of balance to history that has repeatedly played down the significance of the contributions of women to the theology, the witness, the movements, and the growth of the church. An exegetical study of relevant Scripture passages offers stimulating thought for discussion and for serious reevaluation of historical givens. This volume is enriched by pictures, appendixes, bibliography, and indexes. Like many of the women whose stories it tells, this book has a subdued strength that should not be underestimated.

Book Women of Spirit

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 1998-04-29
  • ISBN : 1579101097
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Women of Spirit written by Rosemary Radford Ruether and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1998-04-29 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of essays on the role of women in the institutional and ordained leadership of Western religion. The authors discuss religious women as charismatic leaders, holy women, martyrs, dissenters, renewers and reformers, as well as theological images of the feminine - in God, the Christ-Church relationship, and the self. The studies are historical and descriptive both, from the early church to the present day.

Book The Life of Saint Epiphanius by Ennodius

Download or read book The Life of Saint Epiphanius by Ennodius written by Saint Magnus Felix Ennodius and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virginitas

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. Murray
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 1975-09-30
  • ISBN : 9789024716975
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Virginitas written by M. Murray and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1975-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preface is best written last, after a book is done and its author may look back to survey what he hopes he has accomplished and what he must admit he has not. In hindsight virginity by itself has seemed a very large field to till, but with that reflection also comes a sense of the awareness that a really comprehensive treatment of misgiving, that subject would somehow have to encompass an enormous ter rain, the whole length and breadth of Christianity's attitude toward sexuality from the earliest times down to the high Middle Ages. It could be argued that no small book could cover so much ground, and I would be the first to agree. As its subtitle is meant to suggest, the present work is, in at least two senses of the word, an essay: both an initial and tentative effort to get at the meaning of an extremely important but as yet unprobed medieval belief in the perfective value of the virginal life; and an interpretive study of a complex subject from a limited point of view, specifically, that in which the virgin appears in devotional literature as the bride of Christ.

Book Carmen de Ingratis S  Prosperi Aquitani

Download or read book Carmen de Ingratis S Prosperi Aquitani written by Prosper (de Aquitania) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Church Fathers  Independent Virgins

Download or read book Church Fathers Independent Virgins written by Joyce E. Salisbury and published by Verso. This book was released on 1992-11-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This startling study of early Christian attitudes toward sexuality begins with an account of the different stances adopted by the Church—from the Early Fathers’ view that sex and the female body were irredeemably unholy, to Augustine’s contention that sex was natural, but lust was evil. While the Church Fathers struggled to reach consistent theoretical conclusions, the underlying conflation of ‘women’ with ‘sex’ meant that patristic statements on chastity, virginity and marriage effectively read as ecclesiastical law governing women’s conduct. Joyce Salisbury explains the relationship between Church doctrine and the position of women by placing these official views alongside an ascetic tradition which resisted the constraints imposed by sexual intercourse. Through an examination of texts of female and popular authorship, and the extraordinary lives of seven women saints—including the transvestites Castissima and Pelagia—she presents a markedly different picture of sexual and social roles. For many of these women, celibacy became a form of emancipation. Church Fathers, Independent Virgins bears witness to the entrenched power of the Church to oppress, the continuing power of women to overcome, and the enduring effects of medieval sexual attitudes.

Book  Virgins of God    The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity

Download or read book Virgins of God The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity written by Susanna Elm and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the institutions fundamental to the role of men and women in society today were formed in late antiquity. This path-breaking study offers a comprehensive look at how Christian women of this time initiated alternative, ascetic ways of living, both with and without men. The author studies how these practices were institutionalized, and why later they were either eliminated or transformed by a new Christian Roman elite of men we now think of as the founding fathers of monasticism. - ;Situated in a period that witnessed the genesis of institutions fundamental to this day, this path-breaking study offers a comprehensive look at how ancient Christian women initiated ascetic ways of living, and how these practices were then institutionalized. Using the organization of female asceticism in Asia Minor and Egypt as a lever, the author demonstrates that - in direct contrast to later conceptions - asceticism began primarly as an urban movement. Crucially, it also originated with men and women living together, varying the model of the family. The book then traces how, in the course of the fourth century, these early organizational forms underwent a transformation. Concurrent with the doctrinal struggles to redefine the Trinity, and with the formation of a new Christian --eacute--;lite, men such as Basil of Caesarea changed the institutional configuration of ascetic life in common: they emphasized the segregation of the sexes, and the supremacy of the rural over urban models. At the same time, ascetics became clerics, who increasingly used female saints as symbols for the role of the new ecclesiastical elite. Earlier, more varied models of ascetic life were either silenced or condemned as heretical; and those who had been in fact their reformers became known as the founding fathers of monasticism. -