Publication

2021 - Brill, Paderborn, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC270
  • LCCBT1319 .U68 2021

Description

"This volume explores the long-standing tensions between such notions as soul and body, spirit and flesh, in the context of human immortality and bodily resurrection. The discussion revolves around late antique views on the resurrected human body and the relevant philosophical, medical and theological notions that formed the background for this topic. Soon after the issue of the divine-human body had been problematized by Christianity, it began to drift away from vast metaphysical deliberations into a sphere of more specialized bodily concepts, developed in ancient medicine and other natural sciences. To capture the main trends of this interdisciplinary dialogue, the contributions in this volume range from the 2nd to the 8th centuries CE, and discuss an array of figures and topics, including Justin, Origen, Bardaiṣan, and Gregory of Nyssa."--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Contexts of ancient and medieval anthropology -- vol. 1

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