Primordial landscapes, incorruptible bodies
Subtitle: desert asceticism and the Christian appropriation of Greek ideas on geography, bodies, and immortality
By: Dag Øistein Endsjø.
Series: American university studies -- v. 272
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781433101816
Subjects: Asceticism; Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: Space and continuity; title: Seeing Antony's desert as a Greek landscape; title: Greek gods in a Christian context; title: The cultural construction of landscapes; title: A question of cultural continuity; title: Athanasius and native Egyptian culture; title: Defining the Greek wilderness; title: The wilderness as antispace; title: The Egypt of Athanasius; title: Conclusions on space and continuity; title: Confusion of time and space; title: Finding Eden in the desert; title: Gods and demons; title: Trouble in paradise; title: A matter of life and death; title: The geographical essence of primordiality; title: Utter confusion and boundless possibilities; title: The city of the future; title: A place of Biblical past; title: Conclusions on a primordial landscape; title: The influence of landscapes; title: Man transformed by space; title: Animals as divine instruments; title: Food, sex, and geography; title: Quantities beyond measures; title: Primordial lore and the value of ignorance; title: Place, placelessness, and the question of authority; title: Conclusions on the influence of landscapes; title: Tthe athlete of God; title: The ascetic athlete; title: Athletes in the periphery; title: The trial of space; title: The initiate in the periphery; title: Controlling death, controlling the body; title: The ascetic as martyr; title: Athletic conclusions; title: The body in the periphery; title: The hero who did not return; title: Incorruptible bodies in the periphery; title: Antony's body and the body of the martyr; title: The primordial body; title: Bodies, demons and non-existence; title: The body of life and death; title: Levels of imitation; title: The attraction of the flesh.