Metamorphoses : resurrection, body, and transformative practices in early Christianity / edited by Turid Karlsen Seim and Jorunn kland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Seim, Turid Karlsen.

kland, Jorunn.

Series:

Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Ekstasis, 1865-8792 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Human body.

Change--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How were ideas and experiences of transformation expressed in early Christianity and early Judaism? This volume explores the social and philosophical frameworks within which transformative ideas such as resurrection and practices of becoming "a new being" were shaped. It also explores the analogies and parameters by which transformation was being observed, noted and asserted. The focus on transformation helps to connect topics that tend to be studied separately, such as cosmology, resurrection, aging, gender, and conversion. The textual material is wide-ranging and there are new readings

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

The Resurrected Body in Luke-Acts: The Significance of Space

Ancient Notions of Transferal and Apotheosis in Relation to the Empty Tomb Story in Mark

"In your midst as a child" - "In the form of an old man" Images of Aging and Immortality in Ancient Christianity

Genealogies of the Self: Materiality, Personal Identity, and the Body in Paul's Letters to the Corinthians

"With What Kind of Body Will They Come?" Metamorphosis and the Concept of Change: From Platonic Thinking to Paul´s Notion of the Resurrection of the Dead

Complete and Incomplete Transformation in Paul - a Philosophical Reading of Paul on Body and Spirit

"Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God:" The Transformation of the Flesh in the Early Christian Debates Concerning Resurrection

Valentinian Ideas About Salvation as Transformation

"These are the Symbols and Likenesses of the Resurrection": Conceptualizations of Death and Transformation in the Treatise on the Resurrection (NHC I,4)

Metamorphosis and Mind Cognitive Explorations of the Grotesque in Early Christian Literature

Male Women Martyrs: The Function of Gender-Transformation Language in Early Christian Martyrdom Accounts

Imagining Human Transformation in the Context of Invisible Powers: Instrumental Agency in Second-Century Treatments of Conversion

"As Already Translated to the Kingdom While Still in the Body" The Transformation of the Ascetic in Early Egyptian Monasticism

The Angelic Life

Recognizing the Righteous Remnant? Resurrection, Recognition and Eschatological Reversals in 2 Baruch 47-52

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612187568

9781282187566

1282187562

9783119167482

3119167487

9783110202991

3110202999

OCLC:

646812092