Architects of Piety: The Cappadocian Fathers and the Cult of the Martyrs. By Vasiliki M. Limberis
InArchitects of Piety, Vasiliki Limberis seeks to demonstrate ‘the gripping, dynamic, pervasively central role martyr piety had in the Christianity of the Cappadocian Fathers’ (p. 7). In four chapters, bookended with a brief introduction and shorter conclusion, Limberis ‘layers’ her discussion of th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 319-321 |
| Review of: | Architects of piety (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011) (Holman, Susan R.)
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| Summary: | InArchitects of Piety, Vasiliki Limberis seeks to demonstrate ‘the gripping, dynamic, pervasively central role martyr piety had in the Christianity of the Cappadocian Fathers’ (p. 7). In four chapters, bookended with a brief introduction and shorter conclusion, Limberis ‘layers’ her discussion of the Cappadocian martyr-saint cult through the themes of experience, ekphrasis, kinship, and gender. While she succeeds in providing vivid and coherent illustrations of Cappadocian piety and attention to the imagined construction of architectural space in building the cult of the saints, the book is plagued by infelicities that may limit its usefulness as a scholarly reference., Chapter 1 examines the transformative nature of the cultic panegyris to ‘enact’ a ritual experience of sanctity. |
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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/fls039 |