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Christian women in the patristic world : their influence, authority, and legacy in the second through fifth centuries / Lynn H. Cohick and Amy Brown Hughes. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, [(c)2017.Description: xxxviii, 292 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801039553
  • 080103955X
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  • BR195.W6.H893.C475 2017
  • BR195.W6.H893.C475 2017
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Contents:
Thecla : Christian female protomartyr and virgin of the church Perpetua and Felicitas : mothers and martyrs Christian women in catacomb art From pagan to Christian, martyr to ascetic Helena Augusta, "mother of the empire" Egeria's Itinerary and Christian pilgrimage Macrina the ascetic entrepreneur and the "unlearned" wisdom of Monica Paula, Marcella, and the Melanias : ascetics, scholars, and compatriots in controversy Aelia Pulcheria, "protectress of the empire," and Empress Eudocia, a theological poet Conclusion: Responsibly remembering.
Summary: From facing wild beasts in the arena to governing the Roman Empire, Christian women--as preachers and philosophers, martyrs and empresses, virgins and mothers
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Thecla : Christian female protomartyr and virgin of the church Perpetua and Felicitas : mothers and martyrs Christian women in catacomb art From pagan to Christian, martyr to ascetic Helena Augusta, "mother of the empire" Egeria's Itinerary and Christian pilgrimage Macrina the ascetic entrepreneur and the "unlearned" wisdom of Monica Paula, Marcella, and the Melanias : ascetics, scholars, and compatriots in controversy Aelia Pulcheria, "protectress of the empire," and Empress Eudocia, a theological poet Conclusion: Responsibly remembering.

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Lynn H. Cohick (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) provost and dean of Denver Seminary in Denver, Colorado, and author of Women in the World of the Earliest Christians.

Amy Brown Hughes (PhD, Wheaton College) is assistant professor of theology at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.

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