Women in early Christianity : translations from Greek texts

Women in early Christianity translations from Greek texts

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Miller, Patricia Cox, 1947- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press [2005]
Edición:First edition
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Women's roles in the church. Teachers. Marcellina ; Melania the Younger ; Macrina ; Women, the church, and teaching
  • Prophets. Disciples of Marcus ; Montanists
  • Martyrs. Blandina ; Agathonicê ; Potamiaena
  • Catechumens
  • Widows. New Testament ; Second-century correspondence ; Third-century church rules
  • Deaconesses. Writings opposed to women's ecclesiastical duties
  • 2. Women and virginity. Female comportment. Major treatises on virginity. Methodius, The symposium ; Gregory of Nyssa, On virginity ; John Chrysostom, On virginity
  • The subintroductae. Athanasius, Second letter to virgins ; John Chrysostom, Instruction and refutation directed against those men cohabiting with virgins ; John Chrysostom, On the necessity of guarding virginity
  • Transvestism
  • 3. Portraits of ascetic women. Ascetic heroines in literature. Thecla ; Xanthippe and Polyxena ; Maximilla
  • Biographies of ascetic leaders. Macrina ; Melania the Elder ; Melania the Younger ; Olympias
  • Women in desert asceticism. The nun who feigned madness ; Pelagia ; Theodora, Sarah, and Syncletica
  • 4. Women and domestic life. Marriage. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7 ; Hermas, The shepherd ; Clement of Alexandria, The pedagogue ; Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies ; John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on 1st Corinthians ; John Chrysostom, The kind of women who ought to be taken as wives ; John Chrysostom, Homily 20 on Ephesians
  • Praise for mothers and sisters. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia ; Gregory of Nazianzus on his mother, Nonna ; John Chrysostom, On the priesthood
  • 5. Female imagery and theology. Eve-Mary theme. Eve ; Eve and Mary
  • Marian literature. Marian biography ; Virgin and mother of God ; Marian cult ; The other Mary
  • Female images and metaphors. God as mother ; The "woman clothed with the sun" ; The church personified as a woman ; The soul as female ; The Virtues as female
  • Appendices. Timeline of early Christian women ; Timeline of early Christian authors and texts.

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