This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD
This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
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This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD
This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.
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This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD

This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD

by Gillian Cloke
This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD

This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD

by Gillian Cloke

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This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415094702
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/19/1995
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

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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