Veronika Grimm

From Feasting To Fasting (eBook, PDF)

The Evolution of a Sin

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Produktbeschreibung

In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh. Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse Christian attitudes towards food. Descriptions of foods found in the Pauline Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, Tertullian or Augustine are compared to contemporary Jewish or Greco-Roman pagan texts. Thus, a particular Christian mode of fasting is elaborated which influences us to the present day: ascetic fasting for the suppression of the sexual urges of the body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134778447
• Artikelnr.: 42981640

Autorenporträt

Veronika Grimm, Wolfson College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION 1 THE JEWISH BACKGROUND 2 THE GRAECO-ROMAN BACKGROUND 3 FOOD
AND FASTING IN THE PAULINE EPISTLES 4 FOOD AND FASTING IN THE ACTS OF THE
APOSTLES 5 CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA 6 FOOD AND FASTING IN THE WORKS OF
TERTULLIAN 7 FOOD AND FASTING IN ORIGEN AND EUSEBIUS 8 JEROME AND ASCETIC
PROPAGANDA 9 AUGUSTINE AND ASCETIC PRACTICE; CONCLUSION