Ambrose's Patriarchs
Ethics for the Common Man
In this welcome new book Marcia L. Colish offers the only monograph-length study of the patriarch treatises of Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397), in which he develops, for the first time in the patristic period, an ethics for the laity. Ambrose the ethicist has been viewed primarily as the author of advice to those with special callings in the church, such as priests, widows, and consecrated virgins. His views have been characterized as advocating asceticism and promoting a Platonic view of human nature, in which the body is a moral problem. Ambrose's patriarch treatises, argues Colish, are instead aimed at lay people who did not have special cal…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-268-02365-2
- EAN: 9780268023652
- Produktnummer: 1422888
- Verlag: University Of Notre Dame Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 204 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 304 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 304
Über den Autor
MARCIA L. COLISH is Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, emerita, at Oberlin College and visiting fellow in history at Yale University.
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