This female man of God : women and spiritual power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450 / Gillian Cloke.
By: Cloke, Gillian [author]
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BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Description: xi, 243 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415094704 (paperback); 0415094690 (hardback).Subject(s): Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Holiness -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600DDC classification: 270.2
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. ix)
- Abbreviations (p. xi)
- 1 Introduction (p. 1)
- 2 Patristic Perceptions (p. 13)
- 3 Models for Piety in a Social Context (p. 25)
- 4 'Eunuchs for the Love of Heaven' (p. 57)
- 5 'the Continence Which is Aware of Its Own Right' (p. 82)
- 6 Married Sanctity I: 'the Bed Undefiled' (p. 100)
- 7 Married Sanctity Ii: Christian Motherhood (p. 134)
- 8 'Not by Office but by Gifts of the Spirit' (p. 157)
- 9 Conclusion (p. 212)
- Notes (p. 222)
- Bibliography (p. 227)
- Index (p. 238)