John Chrysostom and the Transformation of the City. By Aideen M. Hartney. Pp. x + 222. London: Duckworth, 2004. isbn 0 7156 31934. £45. Gruesome Deaths and Celibate Lives: Christian Martyrs and Ascetics. By Aideen M. Hartney. Pp. xviii + 140. (Greece and Rome Live.) Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press (an imprint of The Exeter Press), 2005. isbn 1 904675 13 1. Paper £11.99/22.50
IfJohn Chrysostom and the Transformation of the City had a subtitle, it would be ‘representations of gender in Chrysostom's homilies on the Pauline epistles’ (cf. p. 183). It analyses Chrysostom's views on gender as part of a study of his preaching as a species of Christian rhetoric whose...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 318-320 |
| Review of: | Gruesome deaths and celibate lives (Exeter : Bristol Phoenix Press, 2005) (Gould, Graham)
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| Summary: | IfJohn Chrysostom and the Transformation of the City had a subtitle, it would be ‘representations of gender in Chrysostom's homilies on the Pauline epistles’ (cf. p. 183). It analyses Chrysostom's views on gender as part of a study of his preaching as a species of Christian rhetoric whose goal was to effect a transformation of the public life of the late Roman city., Hartney succeeds in deepening understanding of both gender and preaching. She argues that Chrysostom did not seek to subvert the ancient city nor to replace civic ideals or the existing class structure with a Christian ascetic community, but to Christianize the city from the ‘bottom up’ (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj029 |