Our Divine Double

Informationen zum Autor Charles M. Stang is Professor of Early Christian Thought and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School. Klappentext What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole¿that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present. Zusammenfassung What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Charles M. Stang, Stang Charles M.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780674287198
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28719-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Ancient, History of Religion, Philosophy of religion, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies