Taylor Petrey

Resurrecting Parts (eBook, PDF)

Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference

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Produktbeschreibung

This study is the first to examine the question of gender and sexuality in early Christian debates on the nature of the resurrection. It is concerned with how early Christians, from Greek and Latin fathers to the authors of the Nag Hammadi writings, interpreted the resurrected body to address questions about the nature of sexuality and sexual difference. In particular, it explores what early Christians thought it meant that resurrected bodies would not experience sexual desire and reproduction, and examines the instability of early Christian attempts to separate maleness and femaleness, located in resurrected "parts", from the gendered discourses of sexual desires, acts, and reproduction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317442974
• Artikelnr.: 43404548

Autorenporträt

Taylor G. Petrey is the Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Assistant Professor of Religion and the Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Kalamazoo College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: With What Kind of Body Do They Come?
1. Angels, Virgins, and Mules: Pseudo-Justin Martyr, On the Resurrection
2. Spiritual Resurrection in the Flesh: The Nag Hammadi Treatise on the
Resurrection
3. "The Practice of Every Virtue": Athenagoras, On the Resurrection
4. "As a Bridegroom with a Bride": Irenaeus, Against Heresies
5. Flesh and Female: Tertullian of Carthage
Conclusion: Parts and the Foundations of Flesh