Early Christian mystagogy and the body /
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| Imprint: | Leuven : Peeters, 2022. ©2022. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 503 pages) : some illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Annua nuntia lovaniensia ; LXXXIII Annua nuntia Lovaniensia ; 83. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12922007 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The layered valuation of the human body in early Christian mystagogy / Paul van Geest, Nienke Vos
- Part 1. The Ante-Nicene period
- Kissing Hermas : convertive mystagogy in the Shepherd / Henk Bakker
- Let's get physical : Ignatius of Antioch and Judith Butler / Peter-Ben Smit
- Embodied spirituality in Irenaeus of Lyons / Don Springer
- Female bodies : Perpetua and Felicitas / Vincent Hunink
- The soul-body relation in Origen of Alexandria : Ensomatosis vs. Metensomatosis / Ilaria Ramelli
- Christian self-castration as mystagogical practice / Mathew Kuefler
- Part 2. The Post-Nicene period : The Eastern tradition
- The humanity of Christ and embodiment in the sacraments : Theodorean Christology and experiential mystagogy / Hanna Lucas
- A multi-layered garment of immortality : The coverings of the body in Theodore of Mopsuestia's baptismal rite / Nathan Witkamp
- Training the soul, embracing the body : John Chrysostom and embodied mystagogy / Wendy Mayer
- St Basil of Caesarea on the role of the body in life after baptism / Yulia Rozumna
- The role of the body in Gregory of Nyssa's mystagogical exegesis of The song of songs / Giulio Maspero
- Mariology as mystagogy? Eternity and the body in Gregory of Nyssa's theology of virginity / Ilaria Vigorelli
- Early Christian mystagogy and the body : obstacle and opportunity in the ascetic tradition / Nienke Vos
- "It is enough for me to see you" : the saintly body in late antique monasticism / Daniel Lemeni
- The role of the human body in Cyril of Alexandria's mystagogy / Hans van Loon
- Part 3. The Post-Nicene period : the Western tradition
- Physical virginity against the background of creation and Christology : a comparison of the virginity treatises by Ambrose and Gregory of Nyssa / Metha Hokke
- The concept of the human body in Ambrose of Milan's mystagogical works and parallels with John Chrysostom's baptismal homilies / Manuel Mira
- The care of the body in Augustine's mystagogy as a criterion for orthodoxy? His Praeceptum and De haeresibus reread / Paul van Geest
- Anthropocentric Christology in Augustine's Confessiones 13 : sensory and corporeal aspects of mystagogy in the context of the earlier commentaries on Genesis / Martin Claes
- Aweful/awesome St Augustine : is the body the cornerstone of his theology? / Laela Zwollo
- Writing the self as a route to God / Catherine Conybeare
- Part 4. Towards the Medieval period : window and bridge
- Victricius of Rouen on relics as divinized bodies : analyzing his mystagogy with modern models of perception / Giselle de Nie
- Food of judgment : late antiquity and the early middle ages / Danuta Shanzer.
