Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom's Attack on Spiritual Marriage

by Blake Leyerle

This book provides an original and rewarding context for understanding the prolific fourth-century Christian theologian John Chrysostom and the religious and social world in which he lived. Blake Leyerle analyzes two highly rhetorical treatises by this early church father attacking the phenomenon of "spiritual marriage." Spiritual marriage was an ascetic practice with a long history in which a man and a woman lived together in an intimate relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520215583
• ISBN13: 9780520215580
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"