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Acts of Paul and Thecla
Adultery
Allegory
Ambrosiaster
Apologetics
Apostasy
Arianism
Asceticism
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Basil of Caesarea
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Celibacy
Chastity
Christianity
Church Fathers
Clement of Alexandria
Clerical celibacy
Concupiscence
Contra Celsum
De fide
Dialogue with Trypho
Dispensation (canon law)
Docetism
Donatism
Epistle to the Ephesians
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Evagrius Ponticus
Exegesis
Ezekiel
Fornication
God
Helvidius
Heresy
Holiness code
Idolatry
Incorruptibility
Infidel
Jews
John Cassian
John Chrysostom
Jovinian
Judaizers
Justification (theology)
Lactantius
Manichaeism
Marcion of Sinope
Marcionism
Matthew 25
Midrash
Monasticism
Montanism
New Testament
Old Testament
Pelagianism
Religious text
Renunciation
Sacramentum (oath)
Sexual abstinence
Sexual Desire (book)
Sirach
Sola fide
Spiritual marriage
Spirituality
Spouse
Susanna (Book of Daniel)
Tertullian
The City of God (book)
Theodore of Mopsuestia
Theology
Thomas the Apostle
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Virginity
Product details
- ISBN 9780691005126
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning." Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecialist. Section Two is organized around potentially troubling issues posed by Old Testament texts that demanded skillful handling by ascetically inclined Christian exegetes. The third section, "Reading Paul," focuses on the hermeneutical problems raised by I Corinthians 7, and the Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles. Elizabeth Clark's remarkable work will be of interest to scholars of late antiquity, religion, literary theory, and history.
Elizabeth A. Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University and the author of several books, including The Origenist Controversy (Princeton). She is the past president of the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the North American Patristics Society. She is the coeditor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies.
