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      The Making of a Heretic

      Virginia Burrus

      Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus…

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      ‘Begotten, Not Made’: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity

      Virginia Burrus

      This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but…

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      The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography

      Virginia Burrus

      Virginia Burrus argues that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not anti-erotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive counter-eroticism that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality…

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      ‘Begotten, Not Made’: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity

      Virginia Burrus

      This book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but…

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      Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects

      Virginia Burrus

      Explores one of the strongest and disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. This book explores a range of fascinating phenomena, from the flamboyant performances of…

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      Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things

      Virginia Burrus

      In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought.

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      Earthquakes and Gardens

      Virginia Burrus

      Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography.

      In Jerome's Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an…

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      Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion’s Cyprus

      Virginia Burrus

      Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography.

      In Jerome’s Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an…

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      The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy

      Virginia Burrus

      Presents an account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. This book explores heresy from the point of view of the followers of Priscillian. It takes into account…

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      Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline

      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, in turn, does eros infuse…

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      Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline

      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, in turn, does eros infuse…

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      The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary

      A critical edition of The Life of Saint Helia, a late ancient Latin hagiography of uncertain provenance. This remarkable text records a highly polemical debate between a young girl Helia…

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      The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary

      A critical edition of The Life of Saint Helia, a late ancient Latin hagiography of uncertain provenance. This remarkable text records a highly polemical debate between a young girl Helia…

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      The Lives of Saint Constantina: Introduction, Translations, and Commentaries

      This volume publishes for the first time critical editions and English translations of three Latin hagiographies dedicated to the empress, offering an introduction and commentaries to contextualize these virtually unknown…

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      Byzantine Tree Life: Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

      Thomas Arentzen,Virginia Burrus,Glenn Peers

      These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries…

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      Byzantine Tree Life: Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination

      Thomas Arentzen,Virginia Burrus,Glenn Peers

      These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries…

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      Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions

      Virginia Burrus,Mark D. Jordan,Karmen MacKendrick

      Augustine’s Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? In this book, three scholars who share a long-standing fascination with sexuality and Christian…

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      Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions

      Virginia Burrus,Mark D. Jordan,Karmen MacKendrick

      Augustine’s Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? In this title, three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian…

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