The burden of the flesh : fasting and sexuality in early Christianity /
"Shaw's rich and fascinating work provides a startling look at early Christian notions of the body - diet, sexuality, the passions, and especially the ideal of virginity - and sheds important light on the growth of Christian ideals that remain powerful cultural forces even today."--Ja...
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction. What Is Asceticism? Fasting in Sources on Early Desert Monasticism. Bodily Practice and Ascetic Theory
- Ch. 2. Philosophy of the Body and Medicine of the Soul: Ethics, Diet, and Sexuality in Late Antiquity. The Moralist Tradition. Diet and the Physiology of Sexual Desire. Ancient Medical Representations of the Female Body
- Ch. 3. The Physiology of Ascetic Fasting. Basil of Ancyra. Gregory of Nyssa. Jerome. John Cassian. Food Deprivation and Sexual Function
- Ch. 4. The Mother of All Vice: Gluttony and the Health of Body and Soul. Gluttony in John Chrysostom's Homilies. Gluttony and the Passions of the Soul in Evagrius of Pontus. Abstinence and the Control of Passion
- Ch. 5. Fasting and the Return to Paradise. Humanity in the "Golden Age" Christian Asceticism and the Return to Paradise. The Body of Paradise
- Ch. 6. Fasting and the Female Body. Ascetic Women and Fasting in Early Christian Sources. Female Flesh and Future Body.