An Ecstasy of Folly

An Ecstasy of Folly

Author: Laura Salah Nasrallah

Publisher: Harvard Divinity School

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Early Christian communities accused each other's prophets of madness and of making false claims to divine knowledge. This book argues that they did not seek to answer questions about true prophecy or to define madness and rationality, but rather used this discourse to control knowledge, to establish authority, and to define Christian identity.


Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite

Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite

Author: Charles M. Stang

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2012-02-09

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0199640424

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This book examines the writings of an early sixth-century Christian mystical theologian who wrote under the name of a convert of the apostle Paul, Dionysius the Areopagite, and argues that the pseudonym and the corresponding influence of Paul are the crucial lens through which to read this influential corpus.


Bodies, Borders, Believers

Bodies, Borders, Believers

Author: Anne Hege Grung

Publisher: James Clarke & Company

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0227905547

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This stimulating collection of essays by prominent scholars honours Turid Karlsen Seim. Bodies, Borders, Believers brings together biblical scholars, ecumenical theologians, archaeologists, classicists, art historians, and church historians, working side by side to probe the past and its receptions in the present. The contributions relate in one way or another to Seim's broad research interests, covering such themes as gender analysis, bodily practices, and ecumenical dialogue. The editors have brought together an international group of scholars, and among the contributors many scholarly traditions, theoretical orientations, and methodological approaches are represented, making this book an interdisciplinary and border-crossing endeavour. A comprehensivebibliography of Seim's work is included.


Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth

Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth

Author: Jill E. Marshall

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9783161555039

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In First Corinthians, Paul makes two conflicting statements about women's speech: He crafts a difficult argument about whether men and women should cover their heads while praying or prophesying (11:2-16) and instructs women to be silent in the assembly (14:34-35). These two statements bracket an extended discussion about inspired modes of speech - prophecy and prayer in tongues. From these exegetical observations, Jill E. Marshall argues that gender is a central issue throughout 1 Corinthians 11-14 and the religious speaking practices that prompted Paul's response. She situates Paul's arguments about prayer and prophecy within their ancient Mediterranean cultural context, using literary and archaeological evidence, and examines the differences in how ancient writers described prophetic speech when voiced by a man or a woman.


Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1

Anatomy Of Madness Vol 1

Author: W F Bynum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1136524924

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This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. Volume I of three, offers works around people and ideas including those of Samuel Johnson, Jon Conolly, Descartes, Freud, Darwin and Hamlet. Most of the papers in these volumes arose from a seminar series on the history of psychiatry and a one-day seminar on the same theme held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, during the academic year 1982-83.


Patristic Perspectives on Luke’s Transfiguration

Patristic Perspectives on Luke’s Transfiguration

Author: Peter Anthony

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0567699765

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Peter Anthony explores how visionary elements in Luke's Gospel had a particular influence on early interpretation of the Transfiguration, by examining the rich hermeneutical traditions that emerged - particularly in the Latin West - as the Transfiguration was first depicted visually in art. Anthony begins by comparing the visual and visionary culture of antiquity with that of the present, and their differing interpretations of the Transfiguration. He then examines the Transfiguration texts in the synoptic gospels and their interpretation in modern scholarship, and the reception of the Transfiguration in 2 Peter, the Apocalypse of Peter and the Acts of Peter, Tertullian and Origen. Proceeding to look at interpretations found in the Greek East and the Latin West, Anthony finally discusses the earliest visual depictions of the Transfiguration from the sixth century onward, drawn from a wealth of different art forms. Anthony concludes that early commentators' and artists' understanding of how we see and visualise, and therefore, how the Transfiguration was apprehended, is closer to that of the writers of the New Testament than many modern interpreters' is.


The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly

Author: Erasmus Roterodamus

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780300097344

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First published in Paris in 1511, this book is full of humorous, occasionally pessimistic and sometimes cynical diatribes against mankind. The author's principal targets: the Roman Catholic Church, his fellow countrymen, the Dutch, and women.


Re-Reading Gregory of Nazianzus

Re-Reading Gregory of Nazianzus

Author: Christoper A. Beeley

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2012-09-30

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0813219914

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This book, the newest volume in the CUA Studies in Early Christianity, presents original works by leading patristics scholars on a wide range of theological, historical, and cultural topics


Hedy's Folly

Hedy's Folly

Author: Richard Rhodes

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0307742954

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood’s golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.