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Bede's temple : an image and its interpretation / Conor O'Brien.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Brien, Conor, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Oxford theology and religion monographs.
- Oxford theology and religion monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bede.
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a study of the use of the image of the temple in the writings of the most significant theologian of pre-Conquest England, the Venerable Bede. Using the whole of the surviving corpus of Bede's writings, Dr O'Brien examines Bede as a historian and considers his exegetical methods.
- Contents:
- Studying Bede's temple
- Bede's temple in its intellectual context
- Bede's temple as history
- Bede's temple as cosmos
- Bede's temple as the body of Christ
- Bede's temple as church
- Bede's temple as individual
- Building Bede's temple.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180934-9
- 0-19-106415-7
- OCLC:
- 926914908
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