The care of the brain in early Christianity
"The care of the brain in early Christianity is a history of the brain during late antiquity. Through close attention to ancient medical material and its transformation in Christian texts, Jessica Wright traces the roots of cerebral subjectivity--the identification of the individual self with t...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2022
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Schriftenreihe: | The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
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Zusammenfassung: | "The care of the brain in early Christianity is a history of the brain during late antiquity. Through close attention to ancient medical material and its transformation in Christian texts, Jessica Wright traces the roots of cerebral subjectivity--the identification of the individual self with the brain, a belief very much still with us today--to tensions within early Christianity over the brain's role in self-governance and its inherent vulnerability. Examining how early Christians appropriated medical ideas, Wright tracks how they used the vulnerability of the brain as a trope for teaching ascetic practices, therapeutics of the soul, and the path to salvation. Bringing a medical lens to the religous discourse, this text demonstrates that rather than rejecting medical traditions, early Christianity developed through creatively integrating them"--Publisher's website |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | ix, 296 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9780520387676 978-0-520-38767-6 |