Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives - John Chrysostom''s Attack on Spiritual Marriage

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List of contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction
A Mosaic in Daphne
The Shape of This Study
2. The Late Antique Theater
Popular
An Education in Mythology
A Forum for Sumptuous Display
A Political Arena
Chapter 3. John Chrysostom's View of the Theater
Display's Illusion
Rhetorical Display
Sexuality on Display
4. Spiritual Marriage
The Origin and Popularity of Spiritual Marriage
The Couples Chrysostom Addressed
5. Ridiculous Men
Comic Structure and Social Purity
The Merry Play of Stereotype
Comic Gender-Bending: Are You a Man or a Woman?
Visions of Utopias
6. Frightful Women
Tragic Figures: the House and the Woman
Language's Opacity: Dissonance and Riddles
Enemy not Friend
Disclosure
7. John Chrysostom's Role
Priestly Correction
Anger
Social Context
8. Conclusion
Appendix Dating the Treatises
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

Blake Leyerle is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Summary

Offers a context for understanding the prolific fourth-century Christian theologian John Chrysostom and the religious and social world in which he lived. This book analyzes two highly rhetorical treatises by this early church father attacking the phenomenon of 'spiritual marriage.'

Product details

• Authors: Blake Leyerle, Leyerle Blake
• Assisted by: Blake Leyerle (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2001
• EAN: 9780520215580
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21558-0
• No. of pages: 259
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Theatre Studies, History of Religion, The Early Church