The Iconicity of Priesthood: Male Bodies or Embodied Virtue?

Late-ancient theologies of the priesthood frame its tasks, virtues and metaphorical relationships around its chief task: encouraging a common life of theosis as embodied virtue. Metaphorical relationships are used to evoke the manner in which, and the virtue with which, priestly tasks are to be prac...

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Main Author: Mcdowell, Maria Gwyn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2013
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2013, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 364-377
Further subjects:B Women
B Eastern Orthodoxy
B Priesthood
B Ordination
B Virtue
B Gender
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