Hellenistic insights into the human person
Biblical understandings of flesh, body and soul
Desert teachings on the body and asceticism
"Virgins of God": manly women and transvestite saints
"Enemy" or "friend": Climacus's integration of the body
The Syrian perspective on asceticism
Key Syrian sources: apocrypha and anonymity
Pseudo-Macarius, Messalianism and synaesthesia
"Clothed in the body" as a metaphor for incarnation
Heterodox christologies and the heresiarchs
Orthodox patristic formulations.