Origen's Revenge
The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female
Is the difference of male and female to be completely shaken off so that men and women are no longer men and women but merely human beings? The great seventh-century saint Maximus the Confessor said yes, but such thinking is difficult if not impossible to reconcile with much else in Christian tradition that obliges men and women to live as either men or women.Origen's Revenge contrasts the two main sources of early Christian thinking on male and female: the generally negative view of Greek philosophy, limiting sexual distinction to the body and holding the body in low regard, and the much more positive view of Hebrew Scripture, in which sexua…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-66670-017-6
- EAN: 9781666700176
- Produktnummer: 37838197
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Brian Patrick Mitchell, PhD, is a former soldier, journalist, and speechwriter. He is a protodeacon of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and is the author of six books on politics and religion.
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