Love As Agape: The Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse (Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity) 9781481315760, 9781481315746, 9783161539435, 9783161609084, 1481315749

Liebe als Agape: Das fr|hchristliche Konzept und der moderne Diskurs (German Edition) 9783161539435, 9783161609084, 9781481315746, 9781481315784, 3161539435

English summary: Oda Wischmeyer sets out the early Christian concept of agape love in this six chapter monograph. She be

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The Sleeper's Dream: Asclepius Ritual and Early Christian Discourse 9781463235680

This analysis probes into the nature and use of bodily healing and dreams in antiquity, examining literary and archaeolo

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Spiritual Direction as a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford Early Christian Studies) 9780192595997, 2022937050, 9780198854135, 0192595997

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Political Agape : Christian Love and Liberal Democracy 9781467443081, 9780802872463

What is the place of Christian love in a pluralistic society dedicated to "liberty and justice for all"? What

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Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity 9780812201819

Why did early Christians claim their "otherness" as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners so vocally? Ali

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Reading Bodies: Physiognomy as a Strategy of Persuasion in Early Christian Discourse 9780567684387, 9780567684400, 9780567684394

Callie Callon investigates how some early Christian authors utilized physiognomic thought as rhetorical strategy, partic

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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) 100930514X, 9781009305143

This book traces the beginnings of a shift from one model of gendered power to another. Over the course of the seventeen

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SCRIPTURE AS SOCIAL DISCOURSE: Social-Scientific Perspectives on Early Jewish and Christian Writings 9780567676047, 9780567676061, 9780567676054

In this examination of the bible in the social sciences the contributors explore a wide range of broadly social-scientif

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Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics: Studies in Mediaeval and Early Modern History 9786155211799

Today, friendship, love and sexuality are mostly viewed as private, personal and informal relations. In the mediaeval an

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The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern Romance 9780804767446

This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and s

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