Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity

by Elizabeth A. Clark

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examination, in the author's words, of how "the Fathers' axiology of abstinence informed their interpretation of Scriptural texts and incited the production...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691005125
• ISBN13: 9780691005126
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"