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Title: The Body and Society by Peter Brown ISBN: 0-231-06101-3 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Theme not very carefully defined
Comment: The title of Mr. Brown's book is deceiving. He asserts to write about sexual renunciation in early Christianity. Instead he basicly writes about sexual renunciation in among the Gnostics. There is a good reason why devoted Christians of all denominations view Gnosticism as a heresy. Gnosticism is very much rooted in pagan, i.e. Indian and Persian religious esoteric beliefs. As scholars like A. Vööbus ("History of Asceticism in the Syrian Orient") have shown, sexual asceticism is not anything originally Jewish or Christian, but has been taken over by certain groups of Christians from Eastern religions. Of course, these groups have heavily influenced church Christianity and made Christians and non-Christians alike believe that celibacy is a truly christian virtue. However, church christianity has never been exactly the same kind of Christianity as the one depicted in the New Testament.
Rating: 5
Summary: an excellent, scholarly study
Comment: Brown's book is the finest study available on sexuality and the body in the early Church. This book sheds great light on the classical, Jewish , and Christian conceptions of the body and how important those conceptions were in early Christianity, especially for early Christian asceticism. This is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a serious appreciation of the early Church. Many histories focus primarily on the Development of Christian Doctrine and Ecclesial structures. An understanding of early Christian spirituality and asceticism illuminates early Christian doctrine and church structure even more.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent History of Early Christianity
Comment: This is a marvelous book and Peter Brown is a master of his field. _The Body and Society_ provides one of the best histories available of the human body and its relationship to Christianity in late antiquity. Brown traces early Christian ideas on the body and sexulity to their roots in the Classical world and Roman views of gender and sexual practice. Then, the Christian idea of sexual renunciation is explored through the ideas of major Christian theologians, dealing especially well with the complex views of Augustine of Hippo. This is a beautifully written masterpiece of historical research and is likely to be a modern classic.
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Title: Cult of the Saints by Peter Brown ISBN: 0226076229 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum ISBN: 0231081278 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity by Peter Brown ISBN: 0520068009 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Revised Edition with a New Epilogue by Peter Robert Lamont Brown ISBN: 0520227573 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion by Caroline Walker Bynum ISBN: 0942299620 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 09 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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