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" Women in early Christianity : "
edited by Patricia Cox Miller.
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845223
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Women in early Christianity : : translations from Greek texts /\ edited by Patricia Cox Miller.
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First edition.
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Washington, D.C. :: The Catholic University of America Press,, [2005]
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, ©2005
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1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages)
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0813216303
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0813214173
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9780813214177
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-332) and indexes.
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1. Women's roles in the church. Teachers. Marcellina ; Melania the Younger ; Macrina ; Women, the church, and teaching -- Prophets. Disciples of Marcus ; Montanists -- Martyrs. Blandina ; Agathonicê ; Potamiaena -- Catechumens -- Widows. New Testament ; Second-century correspondence ; Third-century church rules -- Deaconesses. Writings opposed to women's ecclesiastical duties -- 2. Women and virginity. Female comportment. Major treatises on virginity. Methodius, The symposium ; Gregory of Nyssa, On virginity ; John Chrysostom, On virginity -- The subintroductae. Athanasius, Second letter to virgins ; John Chrysostom, Instruction and refutation directed against those men cohabiting with virgins ; John Chrysostom, On the necessity of guarding virginity -- Transvestism -- 3. Portraits of ascetic women. Ascetic heroines in literature. Thecla ; Xanthippe and Polyxena ; Maximilla -- Biographies of ascetic leaders. Macrina ; Melania the Elder ; Melania the Younger ; Olympias -- Women in desert asceticism. The nun who feigned madness ; Pelagia ; Theodora, Sarah, and Syncletica -- 4. Women and domestic life. Marriage. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7 ; Hermas, The shepherd ; Clement of Alexandria, The pedagogue ; Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies ; John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on 1st Corinthians ; John Chrysostom, The kind of women who ought to be taken as wives ; John Chrysostom, Homily 20 on Ephesians -- Praise for mothers and sisters. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia ; Gregory of Nazianzus on his mother, Nonna ; John Chrysostom, On the priesthood -- 5. Female imagery and theology. Eve-Mary theme. Eve ; Eve and Mary -- Marian literature. Marian biography ; Virgin and mother of God ; Marian cult ; The other Mary -- Female images and metaphors. God as mother ; The "woman clothed with the sun" ; The church personified as a woman ; The soul as female ; The Virtues as female -- Appendices. Timeline of early Christian women ; Timeline of early Christian authors and texts.
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Women in Christianity-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600, Sources.
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Femmes dans le christianisme-- Histoire-- ca 30-600 (Église primitive), Sources.
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Femmes et christianisme-- Église-- 30-600 (Église primitive)-- Sources.
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Frühchristentum
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RELIGION-- Christian Church-- History.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- History.
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Women in Christianity-- Early church.
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Frau.
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| Dewey Classification
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270.1/082
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BR195.W6W66 2005eb
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BO 2030rvk
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BO 2030.rvk
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Miller, Patricia Cox,1947-
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