Clothed In The Body: Asceticism, The Body And The Spiritual In The Late Antique Era (Studies In Philosophy And Theology In Late Antiquity)

This book explores religious anthropology and asceticism from its biblical and desert roots and within eastern patristic writers including Ephrem, Pseudo-Macarius and Climacus. Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life.

• | Author: Hannah Hunt
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 22, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138115940
• | ISBN-13: 9781138115941