The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts
This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs....
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Cham
Palgrave Macmillan
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | The Bible and Cultural Studies
SpringerLink Bücher Springer eBook Collection Religion and Philosophy |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church
/ Christian literature
/ Self-care
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| IxTheo Classification: | FA Theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible
Theology
B Religion and sociology B Religious Studies B Religion Philosophy B Religion |
| Online Access: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 978-3-319-64749-4 Printed edition: 9783319647494 |
| Summary: | This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented as self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of “orthodoxy” versus “heresy”/”Gnosticism.” |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (XV, 213 p. 1 illus, online resource) |
| ISBN: | 3319647504 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64750-0 |