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Published by Columbia University Press February 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 0231144075ISBN 13: 9780231144070
Seller: Eighth Day Books, LLC, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
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Paper Back. Condition: New. This is the definitive study not only of early Christian attitudes toward sexual renunciation, But also toward marriage, gender, and anthropology generally. While beginning with the realization that ''a great gulf is fixed'' between our own outlook and that of the Christians of late antiquity, Peter Brown nevertheless throws a great deal of light on the variety and complexity of diverse strands of early Christian thought from St. Paul to the end of the fifth century. However strange and at times repugnant these views might be to modern sensibilities, Brown's relentlessly sympathetic understanding of the ancient witnesses, his constant reference to the Greco-Roman social background, his studied avoidance of histrionics, all repudiate a casual or superior dismissal of our forbears, even the most ascetic of whom took the body much more seriously and with more awareness of its mysterious power, than do we.