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A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning." Elizabeth Clark begins with a survey of scholarship concerning early Christian asceticism that is designed to orient the nonspecialist. Section Two is organized around potentially troubling issues posed by Old Testament texts that demanded skillful handling by ascetically inclined Christian exegetes. The third section, "Reading Paul," focuses on the hermeneutical problems raised by I Corinthians 7, and the Deutero-Pauline and Pastoral Epistles. Elizabeth Clark's remarkable work will be of interest to scholars of late antiquity, religion, literary theory, and history.

248 "00/04" --- Asceticism --- -Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--?"00/04" --- History --- -Asceticism --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Biblia --- Asceticism - History - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Acts of Thomas. --- Adultery. --- Allegory. --- Ambrosiaster. --- Anchorite. --- Apologetics. --- Apostasy. --- Arianism. --- Asceticism. --- Basil of Ancyra. --- Basil of Caesarea. --- Bible. --- Body of Christ. --- Book of Judges. --- Book of Wisdom. --- Celibacy. --- Chastity. --- Christian Order. --- Christianity. --- Church Fathers. --- Clement of Alexandria. --- Clerical celibacy. --- Concupiscence. --- Consummation. --- Contra Celsum. --- Conversion to Christianity. --- Criticism of marriage. --- De fide. --- Dialogue with Trypho. --- Dispensation (canon law). --- Docetism. --- Donatism. --- Elijah. --- Epistle to the Ephesians. --- Evagrius Ponticus. --- Exegesis. --- Ezekiel. --- Fear of God. --- First Epistle to the Corinthians. --- Fornication. --- Gluttony. --- God. --- Helvidius. --- Heresy. --- Heterodoxy. --- Holiness code. --- Idolatry. --- Incest. --- Incorruptibility. --- Indulgence. --- Infidel. --- Jews. --- John Cassian. --- John Chrysostom. --- Jovinian. --- Judaizers. --- Justification (theology). --- Justin Martyr. --- Lactantius. --- Manichaeism. --- Marcion of Sinope. --- Marcionism. --- Matthew 25. --- Melania the Elder. --- Midrash. --- Monasticism. --- Montanism. --- New Testament. --- Old Testament. --- Origen. --- Paganism. --- Parable of the Great Banquet. --- Parable of the Ten Virgins. --- Paulinus of Nola. --- Pelagianism. --- Progressive revelation (Bahá'í). --- Rebuke. --- Religion. --- Religious text. --- Renunciation. --- Rule of Faith. --- Sacramentum (oath). --- Self-denial. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sexual abstinence. --- Sirach. --- Sola fide. --- Spiritual marriage. --- Spirituality. --- Spouse. --- Superiority (short story). --- Susanna (Book of Daniel). --- Tertullian. --- The City of God (book). --- Theodore of Mopsuestia. --- Theology. --- Thomas the Apostle. --- Thou shalt not commit adultery. --- Virginity.

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Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue at stake in the Origenist controversy: "Origen" became a code word for nontheological complaints as well. Elizabeth Clark explores the theological and extra-theological implications of the dispute, uses social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants, and suggests how it prefigured modern concerns with the status of representation, the social construction of the body, and praxis vis--vis theory. Shaped by the Trinitarian and ascetic debates, and later to influence clashes between Augustine and the Pelagians, the Origenist controversy intersected with patristic campaigns against pagan "idolatry" and Manichean and astrological determinism. Discussing Evagrius Ponticus, Epiphanius, Theophilus, Jerome, Shenute, and Rufinus in turn, Clark concludes by showing how Augustine's theory of original sin reconstructed the Origenist theory of the soul's pre-existence and "fall" into the body.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Church history --- Anthropomorphism --- Theodicy --- Fathers of the church --- Church controversies --- History of doctrines --- Origen --- Influence --- Christian heresies --- Christian sociology --- #GOSA:II.P.AU.1 --- #GOSA:II.P.AU.3 --- #GOSA:II.P.ORI.M --- 219 --- 276 =75 ORIGENES --- History --- Analogieën. Antropomorfisme (theodicee) --- Griekse patrologie--ORIGENES --- Origin. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Anthropomorphism - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Theodicy - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Origen - Influence --- Ambrosiaster. --- Anathema. --- Anchorite. --- Apologetics. --- Apologeticus. --- Apostasy. --- Arian controversy. --- Arianism. --- Arius. --- Asceticism. --- Backsliding. --- Basil of Caesarea. --- Blasphemy. --- Book of Judges. --- Books of Kings. --- Caelestius. --- Celibacy. --- Church Fathers. --- Consubstantiality. --- Council of Ephesus. --- Criticism of Christianity. --- Damnatio memoriae. --- Damnation. --- De fide. --- Dogma. --- Donatism. --- Ecclesiastical jurisdiction. --- Elijah. --- Epistle to the Ephesians. --- Evagrius Ponticus. --- Excommunication. --- Exegesis. --- Exorcism. --- Ezekiel. --- Fall of man. --- False prophet. --- Fear of God. --- Gluttony. --- God. --- Golden calf. --- Good and evil. --- Heresiarch. --- Heresy. --- Heterodoxy. --- Homoiousian. --- Iconoclasm. --- Idolatry. --- Image of God. --- Jacob and Esau. --- John Chrysostom. --- John of Jerusalem. --- Jovinian. --- Justification (theology). --- Macarius. --- Manichaeism. --- Marcion of Sinope. --- Marcionism. --- Matthew 25. --- Maximilla. --- Melania the Elder. --- Metempsychosis. --- Monophysitism. --- Montanism. --- Natural evil. --- Nomina sacra. --- Origen. --- Outer darkness. --- Paganism. --- Panarion. --- Paschal. --- Paul of Samosata. --- Paulinus of Nola. --- Pelagianism. --- Pelagians (Quietism). --- Polemic. --- Predestination. --- Priscillian. --- Priscillianism. --- Psalm 1. --- Religion. --- Renunciation. --- Sabellianism. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Simon Magus. --- Sin. --- Spiritual body. --- Spirituality. --- Subordinationism. --- Superiority (short story). --- Susanna (Book of Daniel). --- The City of God (book). --- The Righteous Men. --- The Sheep and the Goats. --- Theodicy. --- Theodore of Mopsuestia. --- Theodosius I. --- Theology. --- Treatise on the Resurrection. --- Vigilantius. --- Wickedness. --- Fathers of the church. --- Church controversies. --- Influence.