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9780800627652

The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity

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    9780800627652

  • ISBN10:

    0800627652

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-04-01
  • Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

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Summary

Shaw's rich and fascinating work provides a startling look at early Christian notions of the body - diet, sexuality, the passions, and especially the ideal of virginity - and sheds important light on the growth of Christian ideals that remain powerful cultural forces even today.

Author Biography

Teresa M. Shaw is Program Coordinator of the Religion Department and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introductionp. 1
What Is Asceticism?p. 5
Fasting in Sources on Early Desert Monasticismp. 10
Bodily Practice and Ascetic Theoryp. 17
Philosophy of the Body and Medicine of the Soul: Ethics, Diet, and Sexuality in Late Antiquityp. 27
The Moralist Traditionp. 27
Diet and the Physiology of Sexual Desirep. 53
Ancient Medical Representations of the Female Bodyp. 64
The Physiology of Ascetic Fastingp. 79
Basil of Ancyrap. 81
Gregory of Nyssap. 92
Jeromep. 96
John Cassianp. 112
Food Deprivation and Sexual Functionp. 124
The Mother of All Vice: Gluttony and the Health of Body and Soulp. 129
Gluttony in John Chrysostom's Homiliesp. 131
Gluttony and the Passions of the Soul in Evagrius of Pontusp. 139
Abstinence and the Control of Passionp. 159
Fasting and the Return to Paradisep. 161
Humanity in the "Golden Age"p. 164
Christian Asceticism and the Return to Paradisep. 171
The Body of Paradisep. 214
Fasting and the Female Bodyp. 220
Ascetic Women and Fasting in Early Christian Sourcesp. 221
Female Flesh and Future Bodyp. 252
Bibliographyp. 255
Indexp. 285
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