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Women in early Christianity : translations from Greek texts / [edited by] Patricia Cox Miller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 340 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780813214177 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813214173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.1/082 22
LOC classification:
  • BR195.W6 W66 2005
Contents:
I. Women's roles in the church -- Teachers -- 1. Marcellina -- 2. Melania the younger -- 3. Macrina -- 4. Women, the church, and teaching -- Prophets -- 1. Disciples of Marcus -- 2. Montanists -- Martyrs -- 1. Blandina -- 2. Agathonice -- 3. Potamiaena -- Catechumens -- Widows -- 1. New Testament -- 2. Second-century correspondence -- 3. Third-century church rules -- Deaconesses -- Writings opposed to women's ecclesiastical duties -- II. Women and virginity -- Female comportment -- Major treatises on virginity -- 1. Methodius, The symposium -- 2. Gregory of Nyssa, On virginity -- 3. John Chrysostom, On virginity -- The subintroductae -- 1. Athanasius, Second letter to virgins -- 2. John Chrysostom, Instruction and refutation directed against those men cohabiting with virgins -- 3. John Chrysostom, On the necessity of guarding virginity -- Transvestism -- III. Portraits of ascetic women -- Ascetic heroines in literature -- 1. Thecla -- 2. Xanthippe and Polyxena -- 3. Maximilla -- Biographies of ascetic leaders -- 1. Macrina -- 2. Melania the elder -- 3. Melania the younger -- 4. Olympias -- Women in desert asceticism -- 1. The nun who feigned madness -- 2. Pelagia -- 3. Theodora, Sarah, and Syncletica -- IV. Women and domestic life -- Marriage -- 1. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7 -- 2. Hermas, The shepherd -- 3. Clement of Alexandria, The pedagogue -- 4. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies -- 5. John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on 1 Corinthians -- 6. John Chrysostom, The kind of women who ought to be taken as wives -- 7. John Chrysostom,Homily 20 on Ephesians -- Praise for mothers and sisters -- 1. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia -- 2. Gregory of Nazianzus on his mother, Nonna -- 3. John Chrysostom, On the priesthood -- V. Female imagery and theology -- Eve-Mary theme -- 1. Eve -- 2. Eve and Mary -- Marian literature -- 1. Marian biography -- 2. Virgin and Mother of God -- 3. Marian cult -- 4. The other Mary -- Female images and metaphors -- 1. God as mother -- 2. The "woman clothed with the sun" -- 3. The church personified as a woman -- 4. The soul as female -- 5. The virtues as female.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-332) and indexes.

I. Women's roles in the church -- Teachers -- 1. Marcellina -- 2. Melania the younger -- 3. Macrina -- 4. Women, the church, and teaching -- Prophets -- 1. Disciples of Marcus -- 2. Montanists -- Martyrs -- 1. Blandina -- 2. Agathonice -- 3. Potamiaena -- Catechumens -- Widows -- 1. New Testament -- 2. Second-century correspondence -- 3. Third-century church rules -- Deaconesses -- Writings opposed to women's ecclesiastical duties -- II. Women and virginity -- Female comportment -- Major treatises on virginity -- 1. Methodius, The symposium -- 2. Gregory of Nyssa, On virginity -- 3. John Chrysostom, On virginity -- The subintroductae -- 1. Athanasius, Second letter to virgins -- 2. John Chrysostom, Instruction and refutation directed against those men cohabiting with virgins -- 3. John Chrysostom, On the necessity of guarding virginity -- Transvestism -- III. Portraits of ascetic women -- Ascetic heroines in literature -- 1. Thecla -- 2. Xanthippe and Polyxena -- 3. Maximilla -- Biographies of ascetic leaders -- 1. Macrina -- 2. Melania the elder -- 3. Melania the younger -- 4. Olympias -- Women in desert asceticism -- 1. The nun who feigned madness -- 2. Pelagia -- 3. Theodora, Sarah, and Syncletica -- IV. Women and domestic life -- Marriage -- 1. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7 -- 2. Hermas, The shepherd -- 3. Clement of Alexandria, The pedagogue -- 4. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies -- 5. John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on 1 Corinthians -- 6. John Chrysostom, The kind of women who ought to be taken as wives -- 7. John Chrysostom,Homily 20 on Ephesians -- Praise for mothers and sisters -- 1. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia -- 2. Gregory of Nazianzus on his mother, Nonna -- 3. John Chrysostom, On the priesthood -- V. Female imagery and theology -- Eve-Mary theme -- 1. Eve -- 2. Eve and Mary -- Marian literature -- 1. Marian biography -- 2. Virgin and Mother of God -- 3. Marian cult -- 4. The other Mary -- Female images and metaphors -- 1. God as mother -- 2. The "woman clothed with the sun" -- 3. The church personified as a woman -- 4. The soul as female -- 5. The virtues as female.

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