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Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue at stake in the Origenist controversy: "Origen" became a code word for nontheological complaints as well. Elizabeth Clark explores the theological and extra-theological implications of the dispute, uses social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants, and suggests how it prefigured modern concerns with the status of representation, the social construction of the body, and praxis vis--vis theory. Shaped by the Trinitarian and ascetic debates, and later to influence clashes between Augustine and the Pelagians, the Origenist controversy intersected with patristic campaigns against pagan "idolatry" and Manichean and astrological determinism. Discussing Evagrius Ponticus, Epiphanius, Theophilus, Jerome, Shenute, and Rufinus in turn, Clark concludes by showing how Augustine's theory of original sin reconstructed the Origenist theory of the soul's pre-existence and "fall" into the body. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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9780691632827 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $104.95
9780691031736 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents.
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9780691603513 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $41.95
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9783525593585 | Bilingual edition (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, May 13, 2013), cover price $125.00
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9780812243192 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 12, 2011, cover price $69.95
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9781560777601 | Spiral-bound edition (Center for Learning, May 30, 2006), cover price $39.95
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9781560777618 | Spiral-bound edition (Center for Learning, September 30, 2005), cover price $39.95
In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Western history through engagement with the kinds of critical methods that have transformed other humanities disciplines in recent decades. History, Theory, Text provides a user-friendly survey of crucial developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century debates surrounding history, philosophy, and critical theory. Beginning with the "noble dream" of "history as it really was" in the works of Leopold von Ranke, Clark goes on to review Anglo-American philosophies of history, schools of twentieth-century historiography, structuralism, the debate over narrative history, the changing fate of the history of ideas, and the impact of interpretive anthropology and literary theory on current historical scholarship. In a concluding chapter she offers some practical case studies to illustrate how attending to theoretical considerations can illuminate the study of premodernity. Written with energy and clarity, History, Theory, Text is a clarion call to historians for richer and more imaginative use of contemporary theory.
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9780674015166 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 15, 2004, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written.
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9780674015845 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 30, 2004, cover price $31.50
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9781560777168 | Spiral-bound edition (Center for Learning, January 30, 2003), cover price $29.95
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9781560777069 | Spiral-bound edition (Center for Learning, October 30, 2002), cover price $29.95
Product Description: A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production of ascetic meaning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780691005119 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors.
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9780691005126 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 19, 1999, cover price $66.00
Product Description: Augustine of Hippo (b. A.D. 354) is considered the single most influential theologian in the history of the Church in the West. Among his many contributions, Augustine developed a sexual ethic that became decisive for all later teachings in the Christian West on issues of marriage, reproduction, and sexuality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780813208671 | Catholic Univ of Amer Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Augustine of Hippo (b.
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9780060614096 | Rev exp su edition (Harpercollins, December 1, 1996), cover price $22.00
9789990051568 | Harpercollins, December 1, 1996, cover price $0.02
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9780226042473 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $36.00
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9780889465350 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This is a translation of a life of a rich Roman matron, Melania, who was famous throughout the Christian world for her renunciations and her dedication to Christ.
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9780889465435 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $109.95
Product Description: Women figured largely in the lives of the two celibates Jerome and John Chrysostom, and in this study Elizabeth Clark investigates friendship between the sexes in the early Church. It includes chapters on Chrysostom's attitude toward women; friendship between the sexes in pagan thought; and friendship between the sexes in early Christian theory and practice...read more
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9780889465411 | 2nd edition (Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 1982), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Women figured largely in the lives of the two celibates Jerome and John Chrysostom, and in this study Elizabeth Clark investigates friendship between the sexes in the early Church.
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9780889469846 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This text examines the role which Aristotelian concepts and ideas play in Clement of Alexandria's work.
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