The Song of songs and the fashioning of identity in early Latin Christianity [electronic resource] / Karl Shuve.
Shuve, Karl, author.
2016
BS1485.52 .S59 2016eb
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Title
The Song of songs and the fashioning of identity in early Latin Christianity [electronic resource] / Karl Shuve.
Author
Shuve, Karl, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191821325 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766445
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xix, 236 pages).
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766445 doi
Call Number
BS1485.52 .S59 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
223.906094
Summary
Karl Shuve offers a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of the 'Song of Songs' in the Latin-speaking churches of late antiquity, showing how it was used by bishops and theologians to illuminate complex problems of identity in relation to liturgical practice, doctrinal definitions, and ideas about the body and sexuality.
Note
Karl Shuve offers a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of the 'Song of Songs' in the Latin-speaking churches of late antiquity, showing how it was used by bishops and theologians to illuminate complex problems of identity in relation to liturgical practice, doctrinal definitions, and ideas about the body and sexuality.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2016).
Series
Oxford early Christian studies.
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Song of songs and the fashioning of identity in early Latin Christianity.
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Part I: The Song of Songs in North Africa and Spain. "A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed": the church as closed community in Cyprian and the Donatists
"As a lily among the thorns": the church as mixed community in Pacian, Tyconius, and Augustine
"The church is the flesh of Christ": the Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elvira
Part II: The Song of Songs in Italy. "Like the holy church, unsullied by intercourse": Ambrose, virgins, and the Song
"For souls know not covenants of wedlock": ascetic ideology and mystical theology in Ambrose's later works
"This book contains the mysteries of virginity": Jerome and the making of ascetic community
Epilogue: Towards Medieval exegesis.

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