First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers. The Body and Society questions how theological views ...
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First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers. The Body and Society questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped relationships between men and women, Roman aristocracy and slaves, and the married and the celibate. Brown discusses Tertullian, Valentinus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Constantine, the Desert Fathers, Jerome, Ambrose, and Augustine, among others, and considers asceticism and society in the Eastern Empire, martyrdom and prophecy, gnostic spiritual guidance, promiscuity among the men and women of the church, monks and marriage in Egypt, the ascetic life of women in fourth-century Jerusalem, and the body and society in the early Middle Ages. In his new introduction, Brown reflects on his work's reception in the scholarly community.
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New. 2008. 2nd. Paperback. Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women. Series: Columbia Classics in Religion. Num Pages: 568 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCX6; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 756. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction. Series: Columbia Classics in Religion. 568 pages, illustrations. Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRCC1; HRCX6; JHBK5. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 29. Weight: 740......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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New. This is the definitive study not only of early Christian attitudes toward sexual renunciation, But also toward marriage, gender, and anthropology generally. While beginning with the realization that ''a great gulf is fixed'' between our own outlook and that of the Christians of late antiquity, Peter Brown nevertheless throws a great deal of light on the variety and complexity of diverse strands of early Christian thought from St. Paul to the end of the fifth century. However strange and at times repugnant these views might be to modern sensibilities, Brown's relentlessly sympathetic understanding of the ancient witnesses, his constant reference to the Greco-Roman social background, his studied avoidance of histrionics, all repudiate a casual or superior dismissal of our forbears, even the most ascetic of whom took the body much more seriously and with more awareness of its mysterious power, than do we.
