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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012

1 online resource (xii, 237 p.)

ISBN 9781409409151 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781409409144 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Hellenistic insights into the human person -- Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul -- Desert teachings on the body and asceticism -- "Virgins of God": manly women and transvestite saints -- "Enemy" or "friend": Climacus’s integration of the body -- The Syrian perspective on asceticism -- Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity -- Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia -- "Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation -- Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs -- Orthodox patristic formulations.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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