The Care of the Self in Early Christian Texts

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Synopsis
This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called “the care of the self.” This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their beliefs. A deep analysis of the discourse of martyrdom demonstrates how writers like Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp represented as self-care. Deborah Niederer Saxon brings to light an entire spectrum of alternative views represented in newly-discovered texts from Nag Hammadi and elsewhere. This insightful analysis has implications for feminist scholarship and exposes the false binary of thinking in terms of “orthodoxy” versus “heresy”/”Gnosticism.”
Copyright:
2017

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ISBN-13:
9783319647500
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9783319647494
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education, Philosophy, Sociology
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