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Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (Paperback)
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Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement examines the
ways in which Irenaeus and Clement understood what it means to be
human. By exploring these writings from within their own
theological perspectives, John Behr also offers a theological
critique of the prevailing approach to the asceticism of Late
Antiquity. Writing before monasticism became the dominant paradigm
of Christian asceticism, Irenaeus and Clement afford fascinating
glimpses of alternative approaches. For Irenaeus, asceticism is the
expression of man living the life of God in all dimensions of the
body, that which is most characteristically human and in the image
of God. Human existence as a physical being includes sexuality as a
permanent part of the framework within which males and females grow
towards God. In contrast, Clement depicts asceticism as man's
attempt at a godlike life to protect the rational element, that
which is distinctively human and in the image of God, from any
possible disturbance and threat, or from the vulnerability of
dependency, especially of a physical or sexual nature. Here human
sexuality is strictly limited by the finality of procreation and
abandoned in the resurrection. By paying careful attention to these
two writers, Behr offers challenging material for the continuing
task of understanding ourselves as human beings.
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