Writing and Holiness
The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East
Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production of art. Exploring the emergence of new and distinctly Christian ideas about authorship in late antiquity, Writing and Holiness probes saints' lives and hymns produced in the Greek East to reveal how the ascetic call to imitate Christ's humility rendered artistic and literary creativity problematic. In claiming authority and power, hagiographers appeared to violate the saintly practices that they sought to promote. Christian write…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0253-3
- EAN: 9780812202533
- Produktnummer: 17002289
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'269 KB
- Abbildungen: 11 illus.
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