Specters of Paul
Subtitle: sexual difference in early Christian thought
By: Benjamin H. Dunning
Series: Divinations
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780812243079
Subjects: Women; Sex differences; Sekseverschillen; Bible; History of doctrines; Christianity; Theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The many become one : theological monism and the problem of the female body; title: Desire and the feminine : Clement of Alexandria's displacement of Eve; title: What sort of thing is this luminous woman? : sexual dimorphism in On the origin of the world; title: Virgin earth, virgin birth : Irenaeus of Lyons and the predicaments of recapitulation; title: The contrary operation : resignifying the unpenetrated body in Tertullian of Carthage.