Healing the Social Leper in Gregory of Nyssa's and Gregory of Nazianzus's “περí Φιλοπτωχìας”
The history of what constitutes a “cure” in a given society is a history of that society's values: for the rhythm of the cure shows what is acceptable as a plausible way of giving form, and so the hope of resolution to … the nebulous and intractable fact of suffering.
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1999
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1999, Volume: 92, Issue: 3, Pages: 283-309 |
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| Summary: | The history of what constitutes a “cure” in a given society is a history of that society's values: for the rhythm of the cure shows what is acceptable as a plausible way of giving form, and so the hope of resolution to … the nebulous and intractable fact of suffering. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000003400 |