Title The suffering self : pain and narrative representation in early Christian era / Judith Perkins

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages) Contents 1. Death as a happy ending -- 2. Marriages as happy endings -- 3. Pain without effect -- 4. Suffering and power -- 5. Healing and power : the Acts of Peter -- 6. The sick self -- 7. Ideology, not pathology -- 8. Saints' lives : the community of sufferers Summary Annotation Explores how Christian narrative representation in the early Empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the self as sufferer - and why forms of suffering such as martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-246) and index Notes Print version record Subject Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 Pain -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 Identification (Religion) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-60 Identification (Religion) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600 11.51 early Christianity. RELIGION -- History. Identification (Religion) -- History of doctrines Lijden. Martelaarschap. Vroege kerk. Form Electronic book ISBN 0203210069 9780203210062 9780415113632 0415113636 9780415127066 0415127068

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