TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Patricia Cox
TI  - Women in early Christianity: translations from Greek texts 
SN  - 9780813216300
AV  - BR195 .W664 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Catholic University of America Press
KW  - Women in Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Sources
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Women's roles in the church. Teachers. Marcellina ; Melania the Younger ; Macrina ; Women, the church, and teaching --; Prophets. Disciples of Marcus ; Montanists --; Martyrs. Blandina ; Agathonicê ; Potamiaena --; Catechumens --; Widows. New Testament ; Second-century correspondence ; Third-century church rules --; Deaconesses. Writings opposed to women's ecclesiastical duties --; Women and virginity. Female comportment --; Major treatises on virginity. Methodius, The symposium ; Gregory of Nyssa, On virginity ; John Chrysostom, On virginity --; The subintroductae. Athanasius, Second letter to virgins ; John Chrysostom, Instruction and refutation directed against those men cohabiting with virgins ; John Chrysostom, On the necessity of guarding virginity --; Transvestism --; Portraits of ascetic women. Ascetic heroines in literature. Thecla ; Xanthippe and Polyxena ; Maximilla --; Biographies of ascetic leaders. Macrina ; Melania the Elder ; Melania the Younger ; Olympias --; Women in desert asceticism. The nun who feigned madness ; Pelagia ; Theodora, Sarah, and Syncletica --; Women and domestic life. Marriage. Paul, 1 Corinthians 7 ; Hermas, The shepherd ; Clement of Alexandria, The pedagogue ; Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies ; John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on 1st Corinthians ; John Chrysostom, The kind of women who ought to be taken as wives ; John Chrysostom, Homily 20 on Ephesians --; Praise for mothers and sisters. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia ; Gregory of Nazianzus on his mother, Nonna ; John Chrysostom, On the priesthood --; Female imagery and theology. Eve-Mary theme. Eve ; Eve and Mary --; Marian literature. Marian biography ; Virgin and mother of God ; Marian cult ; The other Mary --; Female images and metaphors. God as mother ; The "woman clothed with the sun" ; The church personified as a woman ; The soul as female ; The Virtues as female --; Timeline of early Christian women --; Timeline of early Christian authors and texts; 2; b
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