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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10871982.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Introduction. What Is Asceticism? Fasting in Sources on Early Desert Monasticism. Bodily Practice and Ascetic Theory -- Ch. 2. Philosophy of the Body and Medicine of the Soul: Ethics, Diet, and Sexuality in Late Antiquity. The Moralist Tradition. Diet and the Physiology of Sexual Desire. Ancient Medical Representations of the Female Body -- Ch. 3. The Physiology of Ascetic Fasting. Basil of Ancyra. Gregory of Nyssa. Jerome. John Cassian. Food Deprivation and Sexual Function -- Ch. 4. The Mother of All Vice: Gluttony and the Health of Body and Soul. Gluttony in John Chrysostom's Homilies. Gluttony and the Passions of the Soul in Evagrius of Pontus. Abstinence and the Control of Passion -- Ch. 5. Fasting and the Return to Paradise. Humanity in the "Golden Age" Christian Asceticism and the Return to Paradise. The Body of Paradise -- Ch. 6. Fasting and the Female Body. Ascetic Women and Fasting in Early Christian Sources. Female Flesh and Future Body.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-284) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 298 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0800627652 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : Fortress Press,".
- catalog subject "248.4/7/09015 21".
- catalog subject "BV5055 .S43 1998".
- catalog subject "BV5055 .S43 1998X".
- catalog subject "Chastity History of doctrines Early church, approximately 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Chastity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Fasting History of doctrines Early church, approximately 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Fasting Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Women Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, approximately 30-600.".
- catalog subject "Women Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Early church, ca. 30-600.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Introduction. What Is Asceticism? Fasting in Sources on Early Desert Monasticism. Bodily Practice and Ascetic Theory -- Ch. 2. Philosophy of the Body and Medicine of the Soul: Ethics, Diet, and Sexuality in Late Antiquity. The Moralist Tradition. Diet and the Physiology of Sexual Desire. Ancient Medical Representations of the Female Body -- Ch. 3. The Physiology of Ascetic Fasting. Basil of Ancyra. Gregory of Nyssa. Jerome. John Cassian. Food Deprivation and Sexual Function -- Ch. 4. The Mother of All Vice: Gluttony and the Health of Body and Soul. Gluttony in John Chrysostom's Homilies. Gluttony and the Passions of the Soul in Evagrius of Pontus. Abstinence and the Control of Passion -- Ch. 5. Fasting and the Return to Paradise. Humanity in the "Golden Age" Christian Asceticism and the Return to Paradise. The Body of Paradise -- Ch. 6. Fasting and the Female Body. Ascetic Women and Fasting in Early Christian Sources. Female Flesh and Future Body.".
- catalog title "The burden of the flesh : fasting and sexuality in early Christianity / Teresa M. Shaw.".
- catalog type "text".