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The literature of late ancient Christianity is rich both in saints who lead lives of almost Edenic health and in saints who court and endure horrifying diseases. In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip draws on a wide range of texts from the fourth through sixth centuries that reflect persistent and contentious attempts to make sense of the illness of the ostensibly holy. He shows how late ancient Christians complicated and critiqued hagiographical commonplaces and radically reinterpreted illness as a valuable mode for spiritual and ascetic practice. Illness need not point to sin or failure, he demonstrates, but might serve in itself as a potent form of spiritual practice that surpasses even the most strenuous of ascetic labours and opens up the sufferer to a more direct knowledge of the self and the divine.

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• Plný název: Thorns in the Flesh
• Autor: Andrew T Crislip
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 248
• EAN: 9780812244458
• ISBN: 0812244451
• ID: 01249880
• Nakladatelství: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Hmotnost: 478 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Datum vydání: 11. October 2012

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