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035			_a(OCoLC)794700613
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050		4	_aBT704 _b.D87 2011eb
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aDunning, Benjamin H. _eautore
245	1	0	_aSpecters of Paul : _bSexual Difference in Early Christian Thought / _cBenjamin H. Dunning.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2011]
264		4	_c©2011
300			_a1 online resource (264 p.)
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490	0		_aDivinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction -- _tPART I. The Platonic Woman -- _tChapter 1. The Many Become One: Theological Monism and the Problem of the Female Body -- _tChapter 2. Desire and the Feminine: Clement of Alexandria’s Displacement of Eve -- _tChapter 3. What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman? Sexual Dimorphism in On the Origin of the World -- _tPART II. Flesh and Virginity -- _tChapter 4. Virgin Earth, Virgin Birth: Irenaeus of Lyons and the Predicaments of Recapitulation -- _tChapter 5. “The Contrary Operation”: Resignifying the Unpenetrated Body in Tertullian of Carthage -- _tConclusion: Specters of Paul -- _tList of Abbreviations -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe first Christians operated with a hierarchical model of sexual difference common to the ancient Mediterranean, with women considered to be lesser versions of men. Yet sexual difference was not completely stable as a conceptual category across the spectrum of formative Christian thinking. Rather, early Christians found ways to exercise theological creativity and to think differently from one another as they probed the enigma of sexually differentiated bodies.In Specters of Paul, Benjamin H. Dunning explores this variety in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled, shaped, and also constrained approaches to the issue. Paul articulates his vision of what it means to be human primarily by situating human beings between two poles: creation (Adam) and resurrection (Christ). But within this framework, where does one place the figure of Eve—and the difference that her female body represents?Dunning demonstrates that this dilemma impacted a range of Christian thinkers in the centuries immediately following the apostle, including Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus of Lyons, Tertullian of Carthage, and authors from the Nag Hammadi corpus. While each of these thinkers attempts to give the difference of the feminine a coherent place within a Pauline typological framework, Dunning shows that they all fail to deliver fully on the coherence that they promise. Instead, sexual difference haunts the Pauline discourse of identity and sameness as the difference that can be neither fully assimilated nor fully ejected—a conclusion with important implications not only for early Christian history but also for feminist and queer philosophy and theology.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)
650		0	_aSex differences _xReligious aspects _xChristianity _xHistory of doctrines _yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650		0	_aWomen _xReligious aspects _xChristianity _xHistory of doctrines _yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650		4	_aReligious Studies.
650		7	_aRELIGION / Christianity / History. _2bisacsh
653			_aAncient Studies.
653			_aReligion.
653			_aReligious Studies.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204353
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812204353
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812204353/original
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