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A feminist companion to Patristic literature /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Feminist companion to the New Testament and early Christian writings ; 12.Publication details: London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2008.Description: xi, 241 Pages. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780567045553 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0567045544 (hbk : alk. paper)
  • 9780567045546 (hbk : alk. paper)
  • 0567045552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1082 L665F 22
LOC classification:
  • BR67 .F44 2008
Contents:
'Many women have been empowered through God's grace' (1 Clem. 55:3) : feminist contradictions and curiosities in Clement of Rome / Barbara E. Bowe -- Ambiguous legacy : a feminist commentary on Clement of Alexandria's works / Denise Kimber Buell -- Torture and travail : producing the Christian martyr / Virginia Burrus -- Virginity and its meaning for women's sexuality in early Christianity / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Ideology, history, and the construction of 'woman' in late ancient Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark -- The pentateuch or Plato : two competing paradigms of Christian sexual morality in the second century CE / Kathy L. Gaca -- Mater ecclesia and fons aeterna : the church and her womb in ancient Christian tradition / Robin M. Jensen -- When is a text about a woman a text about a woman? : the cases of Aseneth and Perpetua / Ross S. Kraemer -- The patronage of women in early Christianity / Carolyn Osiek -- The virgin charioteer and the bride of Christ : gender and the passions in late ancient ethics and early Christian writings on virginity / Teresa M. Shaw.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-236) and index.

'Many women have been empowered through God's grace' (1 Clem. 55:3) : feminist contradictions and curiosities in Clement of Rome / Barbara E. Bowe -- Ambiguous legacy : a feminist commentary on Clement of Alexandria's works / Denise Kimber Buell -- Torture and travail : producing the Christian martyr / Virginia Burrus -- Virginity and its meaning for women's sexuality in early Christianity / Elizabeth A. Castelli -- Ideology, history, and the construction of 'woman' in late ancient Christianity / Elizabeth A. Clark -- The pentateuch or Plato : two competing paradigms of Christian sexual morality in the second century CE / Kathy L. Gaca -- Mater ecclesia and fons aeterna : the church and her womb in ancient Christian tradition / Robin M. Jensen -- When is a text about a woman a text about a woman? : the cases of Aseneth and Perpetua / Ross S. Kraemer -- The patronage of women in early Christianity / Carolyn Osiek -- The virgin charioteer and the bride of Christ : gender and the passions in late ancient ethics and early Christian writings on virginity / Teresa M. Shaw.

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