Primordial landscapes, incorruptible bodies : desert asceticism and the Christian appropriation of Greek ideas on geography, bodies, and immortality / Dag Øistein Endsjø

English

New York ; Bern ; Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin ; Vienna : Lang, 2008

X, 195 S. ; 230 mm x 160 mm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Space and continuity -- Seeing Antony's desert as a Greek landscape -- Greek gods in a Christian context -- The cultural construction of landscapes -- A question of cultural continuity -- Athanasius and native Egyptian culture -- Defining the Greek wilderness -- The wilderness as antispace -- The Egypt of Athanasius -- Conclusions on space and continuity -- Confusion of time and space -- Finding Eden in the desert -- Gods and demons -- Trouble in paradise -- A matter of life and death -- The geographical essence of primordiality -- Utter confusion and boundless possibilities -- The city of the future -- A place of Biblical past -- Conclusions on a primordial landscape -- The influence of landscapes -- Man transformed by space -- Animals as divine instruments -- Food, sex, and geography -- Quantities beyond measures -- Primordial lore and the value of ignorance -- Place, placelessness, and the question of authority -- Conclusions on the influence of landscapes -- Tthe athlete of God -- The ascetic athlete -- Athletes in the periphery -- The trial of space -- The initiate in the periphery -- Controlling death, controlling the body -- The ascetic as martyr -- Athletic conclusions -- The body in the periphery -- The hero who did not return -- Incorruptible bodies in the periphery -- Antony's body and the body of the martyr -- The primordial body -- Bodies, demons and non-existence -- The body of life and death -- Levels of imitation -- The attraction of the flesh

*Ägypten <Altertum> / Mönchtum / Wüste / Askese

*Athanasius<Alexandrinus, Heiliger> *295-373*. Vita Antonii

*Ägypten <Altertum> / Mönchtum / Wüste / Askese

*Athanasius<Alexandrinus, Heiliger> *295-373*. Vita Antonii

*Asceticism ; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 ; Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence ; Asceticism ; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 ; Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence

Library of Congress Classification: BV5031.3

Dewey Decimal Classification: 248.4/7 ; 248.47

Dewey Decimal Classification: 248.47

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: BO 2694: B Theologie und Religionswissenschaften / BO Patrologie und Kirchengeschichte / Werke

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: BO 2560: B Theologie und Religionswissenschaften / BO Patrologie und Kirchengeschichte / Östliches Mönchtum - Einzelthemen

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