Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and other Abject Subjects. By Virginia Burrus
The title delights to tease with semantic modulations. ‘Abject subjects’? ‘Saving shame’? The book tells of outcast and downcast (‘abject’) persons and themes (‘subjects’), of sad souls in search of humility, of rejected and dejected martyrs, religious ascetics, and the like; it will, by description...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 681-684 |
| Review of: | Saving shame (Philadelphia, Pa. : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) (Wickham, L. R.)
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | The title delights to tease with semantic modulations. ‘Abject subjects’? ‘Saving shame’? The book tells of outcast and downcast (‘abject’) persons and themes (‘subjects’), of sad souls in search of humility, of rejected and dejected martyrs, religious ascetics, and the like; it will, by description and analysis, explain and validate the shame which itself ‘saves’. The persons are mostly saints of the ancient church, with biographies or autobiographies studied before, but characterized here afresh. |
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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/flp074 |