<> care of the self in early Christian texts /
Deborah Niederer Saxon.
Bok Engelsk 2017
| Omfang | 1 online resource (xv, 231 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Authors Note -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Importance of the Care of the Self in the History of the Early Christ Movements -- 3 Martyrdom Represented as Care of the Self in the Texts of Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp -- 4 Competing Visions of the Care of the Self in the Apocalypse of Peter, the Testimony of Truth, Fragments of Basilides and Valentinus, and the Gospel of Judas -- 5 Complementary Representations of the Care of the Self in the Gospel of Mary and the Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity -- 6 The Two Poles of Parrhēsia and Concluding Remarks -- Index. - This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented as self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of “orthodoxy” versus “heresy”/”Gnosticism.”
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| ISBN | 3-319-64750-4. - 9783319647500
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| ISBN(galt) | 3319647490 3-319-64749-0
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