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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCrislip, Andrew
_eautore
245 1 0 _aThorns in the Flesh :
_bIllness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity /
_cAndrew Crislip.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (248 p.)
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490 0 _aDivinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Illness, Sanctity, and Asceticism in Antiquity: Approaches and Contexts --
_tChapter 2. Asceticism, Health, and Christian Salvation History: Perspectives from the Earliest Monastic Sources --
_tChapter 3. Paradise, Health, and the Hagiographical Imagination --
_tChapter 4. Choosing Illness: Illness as Ascetic Practice --
_tChapter 5. Pestilence and Sainthood: The Great Coptic Life of Our Father Pachomius --
_tChapter 6. Illness and Spiritual Direction in Late Ancient Gaza: The Correspondence of Barsanuphius and John with the Sick Monk Andrew --
_tConclusion --
_tAbbreviations --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
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520 _aThe literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In such narratives, health and illness might signify the sanctity of the ascetic, or invite consideration of a broader theology of illness. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of texts from the fourth through sixth centuries that reflect persistent and contentious attempts to make sense of the illness of the ostensibly holy. These sources include Lives of Antony, Paul, Pachomius, and others; theological treatises by Basil of Caesarea and Evagrius of Pontus; and collections of correspondence from the period such as the Letters of Barsanuphius and John.Through close readings of these texts, Crislip shows how late ancient Christians complicated and critiqued hagiographical commonplaces and radically reinterpreted illness as a valuable mode for spiritual and ascetic practice. Illness need not point to sin or failure, he demonstrates, but might serve in itself as a potent form of spiritual practice that surpasses even the most strenuous of ascetic labors and opens up the sufferer to a more direct knowledge of the self and the divine. Crislip provides a fresh and nuanced look at the contentious and dynamic theology of illness that emerged in and around the ascetic and monastic cultures of the later Roman world.
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 _aAsceticism
_xHistory
_yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650 0 _aDiseases
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity
_xHistory of doctrines
_yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650 0 _aHuman body
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity
_xHistory of doctrines
_yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650 0 _aSuffering
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity
_xHistory of doctrines
_yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650 4 _aReligious Studies.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Christianity / History.
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653 _aAncient Studies.
653 _aClassics.
653 _aReligion.
653 _aReligious Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207200
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812207200
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