The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian EraThe Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like martyrdom and self-mutilation were so important to early Christians. |
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... doctrines - Early church , ca. 30-600 . I. Title . BR195.S93P47 1995 94-42650 272'.1 - dc20 ISBN 0-415-11363-6 ( hbk ) ISBN 0-415-12706-8 ( pbk ) Brewster Sine qua non CONTENTS Permissions Acknowledgements Introduction 1 DEATH.
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Contents
DEATH AS A HAPPY ENDING | 15 |
MARRIAGES AS HAPPY ENDINGS | 41 |
PAIN WITHOUT EFFECT | 77 |
SUFFERING AND POWER | 104 |
The Acts of Peter | 124 |
THE SICK SELF | 142 |
IDEOLOGY NOT PATHOLOGY | 173 |
The Community of Sufferers | 200 |
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The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era Judith Perkins No preview available - 1995 |