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Author:   Gillian Cloke
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415094702

ISBN 10:   0415094704
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 January 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 INTRODUCTION ‘Holy’ women? 2 PATRISTIC PERCEPTIONS The sources and the problems 3 MODELS FOR PIETY IN A SOCIAL CONTEXT 4 ‘EUNUCHS FOR THE LOVE OF HEAVEN’ Avowed virginity 5 ‘THE CONTINENCE WHICH IS AWARE OF ITS OWN RIGHT’ The order of widows 6 ‘MARRIED SANCTITY I THE BED UNDEFILED’ Christian wifehood 7 MARRIED SANCTITY II: CHRISTIAN MOTHERHOOD 8 ‘NOT BY OFFICE BUT BY GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT’ The ministries of women 9 CONCLUSION Holy ‘women’: the imago dei revisited

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Cloke has made a valuable addition to the literature on women in early catholic Christianity in this carefully nuanced survey of the surviving data <br>. <br>- Religious Studies Review <br> Makes good use of original source material to introduce her reader to the prominent women of this age. Cloke intentionally seek sto introduce her reader to a diverse group of women whose expressions of faith differed: the desert mothers and patristic mothers, widows, monastics, deaconessess and the politically astute.. <br>- Magistra: A Journal of the Study og Feminine Spirituality in History She describes the rise in popularity of a life of asceticism among women of the Roman Empire in the late fourth and early fifth <br>

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Gillian Cloke took her research degree on women in the patristic age at St Andrews University. She is currently working as an administrator in Edinburgh.

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