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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Christian origins"”.
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The origins of Christian ecstasy: a critical survey.
How far, and in what senses, was pre-Montanist Christianity ever ecstatic? We address this question in three stages: (I) How should the concept 'ecstasy' be understood, and ecstatic phenomena analysed? (II) In the light of this, how far are various types of experience familiar to the ancient …
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The Power of Resurrection: Early Christian Resistance Through the Rise of Disciplinary Power
… dissertation is an analysis of the spread of Christianity in the first three centuries and the commensurate activation and development of what Michel Foucault calls disciplinary mechanisms of power. It sets out to explore two questions, first, what were the theoretical conditions that led to …