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Reading Renunciation : Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity

Paperback • 1999 • English

Reading Renunciation : Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity

By Elizabeth A. Clark

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About the book

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how ""the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning."" Elizabeth Clark begins wi...Show more

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9781400823185

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Reading Renunciation : Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity

Format

Paperback

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