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The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
The Body and Society Men Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
Author: Peter Brown
In his monumental book Peter Brown addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation -- continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity -- that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. — Brown vividly describes the early Christians and their strange, disturbing preoccupations. He follows in detail the reflecti...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231061001
ISBN-10: 0231061005
Publication Date: 4/15/1988
Pages: 504
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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