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Informationen zum Autor Benjamin H. Dunning teaches theology at Fordham University and is the author of Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext Benjamin H. Dunning explores the variety of approaches to sexual difference in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways in which the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled, shaped, and also constrained approaches to the issue. Zusammenfassung Benjamin H. Dunning explores the variety of approaches to sexual difference in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways in which the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled! shaped! and also constrained approaches to the issue. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Sexual Difference and Paul's Adam-Christ Typology 1 PART I. THE PLATONIC WOMAN Chapter 1. The Many Become One: Theological Monism and the Problem of the Female Body Chapter 2. Desire and the Feminine: Clement of Alexandria's Displacement of Eve Chapter 3. What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman? Sexual Dimorphism in On the Origin of the World PART II. FLESH AND VIRGINITY Chapter 4. Virgin Earth, Virgin Birth: Irenaeus of Lyons and the Predicaments of Recapitulation Chapter 5. The Contrary Operation: Resignifying the Unpenetrated Body in Tertullian of Carthage Conclusion: Specters of Paul List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
