Title This female man of God : women and spiritual power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450 / Gillian Cloke

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) Contents Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 'Holy' women? -- chapter 2 PATRISTIC PERCEPTIONS The sources and the problems -- chapter 3 MODELS FOR PIETY IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT -- chapter 4 'EUNUCHS FOR THE LOVE OF HEAVEN' Avowed virginity -- chapter 5 'THE CONTINENCE WHICH IS AWARE OF ITS OWN RIGHT' The order of widows -- chapter 6 'MARRIED SANCTITY I THE BED UNDEFILED' Christian wifehood -- chapter 7 MARRIED SANCTITY II: CHRISTIAN MOTHERHOOD -- chapter 8 'NOT BY OFFICE BUT BY GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT' The ministries of women -- chapter 9 CONCLUSION Holy 'women': the imago dei revisited Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index Notes Print version record Subject Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600. Holiness -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 11.51 early Christianity. RELIGION -- Christian Church -- History. RELIGION -- Christianity -- History. Women in Christianity -- Early church Kirche Askese Christentum Frau Frühchristentum Vrouwen. Heiligheid. Ascetisme. MULHER (HISTÓRIA;ASPECTOS RELIGIOSOS) IGREJA (HISTÓRIA) CRISTIANISMO (HISTÓRIA) Saints chrétiens. Femmes (théologie chrétienne) Sainteté -- Histoire des doctrines -- 30-600 (Église primitive) Femmes dans le christianisme -- 30-600 (Église primitive) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203422546 9780203422540

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