The song of songs and the fashioning of identity in early Latin christianity
Part I: The Song of Songs in North Africa and Spain. "A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed": the church as closed community in Cyprian and the Donatists -- "As a lily among the thorns": the church as mixed community in Pacian, Tyconius, and Augustine -- "The church is the fl...
| Summary: | Part I: The Song of Songs in North Africa and Spain. "A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed": the church as closed community in Cyprian and the Donatists -- "As a lily among the thorns": the church as mixed community in Pacian, Tyconius, and Augustine -- "The church is the flesh of Christ": the Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elvira -- Part II: The Song of Songs in Italy. "Like the holy church, unsullied by intercourse": Ambrose, virgins, and the Song -- "For souls know not covenants of wedlock": ascetic ideology and mystical theology in Ambrose's later works -- "This book contains the mysteries of virginity": Jerome and the making of ascetic community -- Epilogue: Towards Medieval exegesis |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 236 S. |
