Specters of Paul : Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Sexual Difference and Paul's Adam-Christ Typology -- Part I. The Platonic Woman -- Chapter 1. The Many Become One: Theological Monism and the Problem of the Female Body -- Chapter 2. Desire and the Feminine: Clement of Alexandria's Displacement of Eve -- Chapter 3. What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman? Sexual Dimorphism in On the Origin of the World -- Part II. Flesh and Virginity -- Chapter 4. Virgin Earth, Virgin Birth: Irenaeus of Lyons and the Predicaments of Recapitulation -- Chapter 5. The Contrary Operation: Resignifying the Unpenetrated Body in Tertullian of Carthage -- Conclusion: Specters of Paul -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Benjamin H. Dunning explores the variety of approaches to sexual difference in second- and third-century Christian thought with particular attention to the ways in which the legacy of the apostle Paul fueled, shaped, and also constrained approaches to the issue.

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