[PDF.22dh] The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

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 | #2862838 in Books |  University of Pennsylvania Press |  2009-03-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.75 x5.98l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Left wanting on a good study|By John C. Marshell Jr.|"The Corporeal Imagination" is a study of the evolution of materiality in Christian spirituality. It incorporates both contemporary aesthetic theory and patristic theology in an analysis of a "material turn" in the late antique period toward the "sensible world" as a medium for disclosing the divine. Miller includes in her| ||"A highly original contribution to the history of Christianity as well as to the study of religion. Eloquent and learned, this book offers many new insights and models for reflection. The Corporeal Imagination will appeal to scholars of religion, theol

With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine,...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)   |  Patricia Cox Miller. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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