Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference

ISBN-13: 9780367873219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 124 str.

Taylor Petrey

Opis

This study is the first to examine the question of gender and sexuality in early Christian debates on the nature of the resurrection. It is concerned with how early Christians, from Greek and Latin fathers to the authors of the Nag Hammadi writings, interpreted the resurrected body to address questions about the nature of sexuality and sexual di

Spis treści

Introduction: With What Kind of Body Do They Come?

1. Angels, Virgins, and Mules: Pseudo-Justin Martyr, On the Resurrection

2. Spiritual Resurrection in the Flesh: The Nag Hammadi Treatise on the Resurrection

3. "The Practice of Every Virtue": Athenagoras, On the Resurrection

4. "As a Bridegroom with a Bride": Irenaeus, Against Heresies

5. Flesh and Female: Tertullian of Carthage

Conclusion: Parts and the Foundations of Flesh

O autorze

Taylor G. Petrey is the Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Assistant Professor of Religion and the Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Kalamazoo College, USA.