A Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature

by Levine, Amy-Jill

• ISBN13: 9780567045553
• ISBN10: 0567045552
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Summary

The Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature is the twelfth volume in the Feminist Companion to the Bible and Early Christian Literature.This volume examines a number of Patristic texts and early Christian documents from a feminist perspective including

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
'Many Women Have Been Empowered Through God's Grace...' (1 Clem. 55.3): Feminist Contradictions and Curiosities in Clement of Rome	p. 15
Ambiguous Legacy: A Feminist Commentary on Clement of Alexandria's Works	p. 26
Torture and Travail: Producing the Christian Martyr	p. 56
Virginity and its Meaning for Women's Sexuality in Early Christianity	p. 72
Ideology, History and the Construction of 'Woman' in Late Ancient Christianity	p. 101
The Pentateuch or Plato: Two Competing Paradigms of Christian Sexual Morality in the Second Century ce	p. 125
Mater Ecclesia and Fons Aeterna: The Church and Her Womb in Ancient Christian Tradition	p. 137
When is a Text About a Woman a Text About a Woman?: The Cases of Aseneth and Perpetua	p. 156
The Patronage of Women in Early Christianity	p. 173
The Virgin Charioteer and the Bride of Christ: Gender and the Passions in Late Ancient Ethics and Early Christian Writings on Virginity	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 237
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