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842942
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Crislip, Andrew T., (Andrew Todd)
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Thorns in the flesh : : illness and sanctity in late ancient Christianity /\ Andrew Crislip.
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1st ed.
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, ©2013.
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| Series Statement
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Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
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1 online resource (238 pages)
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| ISBN
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0812207203
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: 0812244451
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: 1283898683
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: 9780812207200
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: 9780812244458
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: 9781283898683
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-230) and index.
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| Contents
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Illness, sanctity, and asceticism in antiquity : approaches and contexts -- Asceticism, health, and Christian salvation history : perspectives from the earliest monastic sources -- Paradise, health, and the hagiographical imagination -- Choosing illness : illness as ascetic practice -- Pestilence and sainthood : the great Coptic Life of our Father Pachomius -- Illness and spiritual direction in late ancient Gaza : the correspondence of Barsanuphius and John with the sick Monk Andrew.
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"The 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."--Project Muse.
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Asceticism-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Diseases-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Human body-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Suffering-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Asceticism-- Early church
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Askese
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Christentum
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Heiligkeit
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Krankheit
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Leid
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- History.
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Christianity-- history.
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Chronic Disease.
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History, Ancient.
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Value of Life.
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| Dewey Classification
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261.8/32109015
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BR195.S93C75 2013eb
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2016 D-508
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BR 195.S93
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| Parallel Title
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Illness and sanctity in late ancient Christianity
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