TY - BOOK AU - Bottomley,Frank TI - Attitudes to the body in Western Christendom SN - 0860190323 AV - BT702 .B67 U1 - ARCH YNDC 233 B751A PY - 1979/// CY - London PB - Lepus Books, KW - Theological anthropology KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Human body KW - Religious aspects N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index; The Graeco-Roman background -- Ideas of the body in the Old Testament -- The original Christian teaching -- The struggle for survival in the Roman world -- The beginning of systematic thought -- The establishment of the western tradition -- The Dark Ages -- Mediaeval synthesis and promise -- The blighted flower of the Renaissance -- The onset of disintegration ER -