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The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
Patricia Cox Miller
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Description for The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
Paperback. Focusing on saintly human bodies as relics, animated icons, and performers of the holy in hagiography, this book analyzes how Christians in late antiquity saw the material world with new eyes as a medium for the disclosure of the divine in the earthly realm. Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: HRAX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological ... Read more
With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
Condition
New
Weight
403g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223552
SKU
V9780812223552
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About Patricia Cox Miller
Patricia Cox Miller is W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion, Emerita, at Syracuse University. She is author of Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man and Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture and editor (with Dale B. Martin) of The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography.
Reviews for The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
[Cox Miller's] probings are meticulous, provocative, and incisive. To read this book is to have one's own viewing turned inside out. -Theological Studies The Corporeal Imagination is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and fascinating book. It is important and delightful reading, a skillful interpretation that makes vivid a central problematic on which Christian belief and practice depend, namely, the simultaneous establishment ... Read more