Hunt, Hannah. <br/><br/>
Clothed in the body  asceticism, the body and the spiritual in the late antique era /  [electronic resource] : 
Hannah Hunt. 
 - Farnham, Surrey, England ;  Burlington, Vt. :  Ashgate,  c2012. 
 - xii, 237 p. 
 - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity .
 - Ashgate studies in philosophy & theology in late antiquity. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Hellenistic insights into the human person -- Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul -- Desert teachings on the body and asceticism -- "Virgins of God": manly women and transvestite saints -- "Enemy" or "friend": Climacus's integration of the body -- The Syrian perspective on asceticism -- Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity -- Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia -- "Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation -- Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs -- Orthodox patristic formulations. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Theological anthropology--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Asceticism--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT741.3  / .H86 2012eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>233/.509