The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
(Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Series)
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812223551
ISBN13:9780812223552
Release Date:January 2016
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.14 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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