Overview :The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy... Read More
Overview :Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding f... Read More
Overview :In our age of ecological crisis, what insights--if any--can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, ear... Read More
Overview :Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography. In Jerome's Life of Sa... Read More
Overview :Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame... Read More
Overview :This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian... Read More
Overview :Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancie... Read More
Overview :What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How,... Read More