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  • Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity

    Edited by Ashley Purpura, Thomas Arentzen, Susan Ashbrook Harvey ...
    What is the role of gender in Eastern Christianity? In this volume, Orthodox experts of different disciplines and cultural backgrounds tackle this complex question. They engage critically with gender issues within their own tradition. Rather than simply accepting pervasive assumptions and practices, the authors challenge readers to reconsider historically or theologically justified views by ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds

    Edited by Ms Laura Borghetti, Dr Thomas Arentzen ...
    Series series sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception
    How can we study the late ancient and Byzantine history from ecological perspectives? How might one grapple with the more-than-human in sources and media created by humans? Exploring the diverse ways in which pre-modern texts engaged with the broader natural world, this book presents scholarly ventures into the terrains of the past. From the ancient treatises on dreams to monastic tales from the ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Byzantine Tree Life

    Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

    by Thomas Arentzen, Virginia Burrus, Glenn Peers ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality

    by Thomas Arentzen, Ashley M. Purpura, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou, John Behr, Davor Džalto, Susan Ashbrook Harvey0, Michael Hjälm1, Pantelis Kalaitzidis2, Andrii Krawchuk3, Richard René4, Bryce E. Rich5, Ekaterini Tsalampouni6, Dmitry Uzlaner7, Haralambos Ventis8, Gayle E. Woloschak9 ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the past decade has witnessed a newfound openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Both the theological trajectory and the historical circumstances of the Orthodox Church differ radically from those of other Christian denominations that have already developed robust and creative reflections on sexuality and sexual ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium

    Marian Narratives in Texts and Images

    Edited by Thomas Arentzen, Mary B. Cunningham ...
    This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Garb of Being

    Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity

    by Dr. Georgia Frank, Dr. Susan Holman, Dr. Andrew Jacobs, Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, Thomas Arentzen, Sebastian Brock, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Constance Furey0, Sidney Griffith1, Rebecca Krawiec2, Bernadette McNary-Zak3, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent4, Arthur Urbano5, Frances Young6, Carrie Schroeder7 ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social, private and public—that clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Virgin in Song

    Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist

    by Thomas Arentzen ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    According to legend, the Virgin appeared one Christmas Eve to an artless young man standing in one of Constantinople's most famous Marian shrines. She offered him a scroll of papyrus with the injunction that he swallow it, and following the Virgin's command, he did so. Immediately his voice turned sweet and gentle as he spontaneously intoned his hymn "The Virgin today gives birth." So was born the ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Virgin in Song

    Mary and the Poetry of Romanos the Melodist

    by Thomas Arentzen ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    According to legend, the Virgin appeared one Christmas Eve to an artless young man standing in one of Constantinople's most famous Marian shrines. She offered him a scroll of papyrus with the injunction that he swallow it, and following the Virgin's command, he did so. Immediately his voice turned sweet and gentle as he spontaneously intoned his hymn "The Virgin today gives birth." So was born the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Hildegard of Bingen

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by Maud Burnett McInerney ...
    Series series Garland Medieval Casebooks
    This volume explores the extraordinary life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology to zoology to medicine. These essays-written specifically for this volume-approach Hildegard from a variety of perspectives including gender theory, musicology, art history, the history of science, and comparative studies. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Models of the Church

    by Avery Dulles ...
    Series Book 13 - Image Classics
    There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Heresy

    A History of Defending the Truth

    by Alister E. McGrath ...
    A study of the history of heresy and rival forms of Christianity, arguing that the church must continue to defend what is true about Jesus.Our ongoing fascination with alternative Christianities is on display every time a never-before-seen gospel text is revealed, an archaeological discovery about Jesus makes front-page news, or anew work of fiction challenges the very foundations of the church. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • God, Sexuality, and the Self

    An Essay 'On the Trinity'

    by Sarah Coakley ...
    God, Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to re-conceive the relation of sexual desire and the desire for God and - through the lens of prayer practice - to chart the intrinsic connection of this relation to a theology of the Trinity. The goal is to integrate the demanding ascetical undertaking of prayer with the recovery of lost and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD