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Relying on the works of Jasbir Puar and Marchal, the chapter explores the locus where sexuality, specifically the formation of masculinity, intersects with religious conflict, notably in the formation of late antique religious radicalism, using the homilies of John Chrysostom as a case in point. In a study engaging with religious conflict and notions of "just peace" in Augustine's thought, Serena Sharma highlights the importance of identifying, problematising, and addressing historical discursive grey zones. Inclusion is a very important feature in the operations of sexual exceptionalism and religious conflict. Two important strategies are at play in the sexual exceptionalism of religious conflict, namely inclusion, and teratogenisation. Chrysostom meticulously constructs the sexual perversity of his opponents in contrast to the sexual exceptionalism of his own group. The formation of masculinity in terms of sexual exceptionalism and perversity therefore has a leading role in religious conflict.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Paradise Lost: Creation, Fall, and Marriage -- Augustine, On the Good of Marriage -- Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis -- Ambrose, On Paradise -- John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis -- John Chrysostom, Discourse 2 on Genesis -- John Chrysostom, The Kind of Women Who Ought To Be Taken As Wives -- Irenaeus, Against Heresies -- Tertullian, On the Dress of Women -- Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis -- Ambrose, On Paradise -- John Chrysostom, Homily 26 on I Corinthians -- John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis -- Augustine, The City of God -- Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies -- Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence -- Augustine, On the Good of Marriage -- Augustine, On the Sermon on the Mount -- Augustine, Epistle 262 -- Tertullian, Exhortation to His Wife -- John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on I Corinthians -- John Chrysostom, Homily 5 on I Thessalonians -- John Chrysostom, Homily 19 on I Corinthians -- Chapter Two: Women Endangered: The Apocryphal Acts and Martyrdom -- Acts of Paul and Thecla -- Acts of John -- The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas -- Ambrose, On Virgins -- Prudentius, Crowns of Martyrdom -- Chapter Three: Paradise Regained: Asceticism in Theory and Practice -- Methodius, The Banquet -- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity -- John Chrysostom, On Virginity -- Jerome, Against Jovinian -- Jerome, Epistle 22 -- Palladius, Lausiac History -- Jerome, Epistle 108 -- Augustine, Epistle 211 -- Caesarius of Arles, Rules for the Holy Virgins -- John Chrysostom, On the Necessity of Guarding Virginity -- Tertullian, Exhortation to Chastity -- Tertullian, On Monogamy -- John Chrysostom, On Not Marrying Again -- Chapter Four: Women in the Wider World

The New Testament period -- Injustice or God's will? : early Christian explanations of poverty / Steven J. Friesen -- "Be not one who stretches out hands to receive but shuts them when it comes to giving :" envisioning Christian charity when both donors and recipients are poor / Denise Kimber Buell -- James 2:2/7 in early Christian thought / George K. Hasselhoff -- Wealth, poverty, and the value of the person : some notes on the hymn of the pearl and its early Christian context / Edward Moore -- Egypt in late antiquity -- Widening the eye of the needle : wealth and poverty in the works of Clement of Alexandria / Annewies van den Hoek -- Care for the poor, fear of poverty, and love of money : Evagrius Ponticus on the monk's economic vulnerability / David Brakke -- Wine for widows : papyrological evidence for Christian charity in late antiquity Egypt / Adam Serfass -- Rich and poor in sophronius of Jerusalem's miracles of Saints Cyrus and John / Susan R. Holman -- John Chrysostom, the Cappadocians, and friends -- This sweetest passage : Matthew 25:31/46 and assistance to the poor in the homilies of John Chrysostom / Rudolf Brendle -- Poverty and generosity toward the poor in the time of John Chrysostom / Wendy Mayer -- Poverty and wealth as theater : John Chrysostom's homilies on Lazarus and the rich man / Francine Cardman -- Wealthy and impoverished widows in the writings of St. John Chrysostom / Efthalia Makris Walsh -- The hellenic background and nature of patristic philanthropy in the early Byzantine era / Demetrios J. Constantelos -- Wealth, trade, and profit in early Byzantium -- Gilding the lily : a patristic defense of liturgical splendor / A. Edward siecienski -- Wealth, stewardship, and charitable "blessings" in early Byzantine monasticism / Daniel Caner -- Trade, profit, and salvation in the late patristic and the Byzantine period / Angeliki E. Laiou -- Patristic studies for today -- St. Basil's philanthropic program and modern microlending -- Strategies for economic self-actualization / Timothy Patitsas -- The use of patristic socioethical texts in Catholic social thought / Brian Matz

An Orthodox Christian view of non-Christian religions -- The liturgy as self-definition and the religious other -- The people of God : an Orthodox perspective -- Reconciliation of peoples : the challenge for the church -- Recent patriarchal encyclicals on religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence -- Temple and universe : the Christian vision of the sacred -- St. John Chrysostom on social responsibility -- Religion, politics, and society : an Orthodox perspective -- Global vision and religious conviction : an Orthodox Christian reflection on globalization -- An Orthodox reflection on truth & tolerance -- Historic views on salvation outside the church -- Modern Orthodox theologians on salvation outside the church

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were cowards or, worse yet, heretics. On the face of it, it meant denial of Christ and thus betrayal of the faith and its community. But, by the fourth century, the terms of persecution changed as Christianity became the favored cult of the Roman Empire. Prominent Christians who fled and hence survived became founders and influencers of Christianity over time. Bishops in Flight examines the various ways these episcopal leaders both appealed to and altered the discourse of Christian flight to defend their status as purveyors of Christian truth even when their exiles appeared to condemn them. It illuminates how profoundly Christian authors deployed theological discourse and the rhetoric of heresy to respond to the phenomenal political instability of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Constraints and contradictions: whiteness and femininity in ancient Greece -- 2. The Graces and colour weaving -- 3. Transvestism or travesty? Dance, dress and gender in Greek vase-painting -- 4. The 'language' of female hunting outfit in ancient Greece -- 5. The meaning of the veil in ancient Greek culture -- 6. Investing the barbarian? The dress of Amazons in Athenian art -- 7. Levels of concealment: the dress of hetairai and pornai in Greek texts -- 8. Visions of gleaming textiles and a clay core: textiles, Greek women, and Pandora -- 9. Clutching at clothes -- 10. A woman's view? Dress, eroticism, and the ideal female body in Athenian art -- 11. Controlling women's dress: gynaikonomoi -- 12. Clothes as sign: the case of the large and small Herculaneum women -- 13. 'Dedicated followers of fashion': John Chrysostom on female dress -- Index.

The social values of upper-class Christians in Late Antiquity often contrasted with the modest backgrounds of their religion's founders - the apostles - and the virtues they exemplified. Drawing on examples from the Cappadocian Fathers, John Chrysostom, and other late antique authors, this book examines attitudes toward the apostles' status as manual workers and their virtues of simplicity and humility. Due to the strong connection between these traits and low socioeconomic status, late antique bishops often allowed their own high standing to influence how they understood these matters. The virtues of simplicity and humility had been a natural fit for tentmakers and fishermen, but posed a significant challenge to Christians born into the elite and trained in prestigious schools. This volume examines the socioeconomic implications of Christianity in the Roman Empire by considering how the first wave of powerful, upper-class church leaders interpreted the socially radical elements of their religion.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reinvigorating the Dialogue between Confucianism and Catholicism -- Part 1. Historical Contexts: China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan -- One The Aristotelian Concept of Substance Introduced by Early Jesuit Missionaries to China and Its Problems in Encountering Confucianism -- Two When Christian Devotion Meets Confucian Piety: The Teaching of the "Three Fatherhoods" in Premodern Vietnam -- Three The Zhongyong through a Theistic Lens: Tasan Chŏng Yagyong on How to Be Moral -- Four Confucianism and Catholicism in Mid-Twentieth-Century Japan -- Part 2. Comparative Theology and Philosophy -- Five Mengzi, Xunzi, Augustine, and John Chrysostom on Childhood Moral Cultivation -- Six Natural Law in Mencius and Aquinas -- Seven Reimagining Confucianism with Ignatius of Loyola -- Eight "Exemplar Reasoning" as a Tool for Constructive Conversation between Confucians and Catholics -- Nine Understandings of Human Failures to Flourish in Catholicism and Confucianism -- Ten Concluding Reflections: Confucian and Catholic Conceptions of the Virtues -- Contributors -- Index.

Curating the past : the retrieval of historical memories and utopian ideals / Bronwen Neil -- Julian's cynics : remembering for future purposes / Philip Bosman -- Memories of trauma and the formation of a Christian identity / Jonathan P. Conant -- Augustine's memory of the 411 confrontation with Emeritus of Cherchell / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- Purity and the rewriting of memory : revisiting Julian's disgust for the Christian worship of corpses and its consequences / Wendy Mayer -- Constructing the sacred in late Antiquity : Jerome as a guide to Christian identity / Naoki Kamimura -- Utopia, body, and pastness in John Chrysostom / Chris L. de Wet -- Memories of peace and violence in the late-antique West / Bronwen Neil -- Two foreign saints in Palestine : responses to religious conflict in the fifth to seventh centuries / Pauline Allen, Kosta Simic -- Remembering the damned : Byzantine liturgical hymns as instruments of religious polemics / Kosta Simic -- Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventh-century apocalyptic discourse / Ryan W. Strickler -- Ausonius, Fortunatus, and the ruins of the Moselle / Chris Bishop -- Spitting on statues and shaving Hercules's beard : the conflict over images (and idols) in early Christianity / Robin M. Jensen -- Athena, patroness of the marketplace : from Athens to Constantinople / Janet Wade -- Transformation of Mediterranean ritual spaces up to the early Arab conquests / Leonela Fundic.

"The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. More's great-grandson, Cresacre, a Londoner, understood it correctly, and that gives reason to trust him on other aspects of More's youth. This study is based on early testimonies, those of Erasmus, Roper, Harpsfield, Stapleton and Cresacre More, as well as More's early writings, the Pageant Verses, and his additions / omissions to the Life of Pico; evidence drawn from authors he recommended, like Hilton and Gerson; and finally, his epitaph. Attention is given to his lectures on St Augustine's City of God, and to St John Chrysostom. It is argued More studied Chrysostom's Homilies on the Gospel of St Matthew from a Greek manuscript. Chrysostom, in the introductory homily, spoke of the city and the market place, as the setting in which Christians practice the teaching of Christ. More practiced law and taught it. He was attracted to becoming a Christian humanist alongside Grocyn, Colet, Linacre, and Lily. With them he studied Greek, the classics and Fathers of the Church. Helped by them he became a man of prayer, aware of the need to seek holiness in the midst of the world as a layman. Faced with the dilemma of the humanist in choosing between the contemplative life of the philosopher and an active life of engagement with the world, he deliberately chose the active life in service to society, and the contemplative life of the Christian as a married man. This awareness and choice is what is called vocation, implying determination to persevere throughout life: More saw his life as a pilgrimage towards heaven as described in the last chapter focusing on More's last work, De tristitia, tedio, pavore, et oratione christi ante captionem eius"--

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Front cover -- Biographical notes -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Roots of character and flowers of virtues: a philosophy of childhood in Plato's Republic -- 3 Aristotle on children and childhood -- 4 Roman conceptions of childhood: the modes of family commemoration and academic prescription -- 5 Greco-Roman paediatrics -- 6 Ancient Jewish traditions: Moses's infancy and the remaking of biblical Miriam in antiquity -- 7 Slave children in the first-century Jesus movement -- 8 Aspects of childhood in second- and third-century Christianity: the case of Clement of Alexandria -- 9 Children and childhood in Neoplatonism -- 10 Childhood in 400 CE : Jerome, John Chrysostom, and Augustine on children and their formation -- 11 Children in Oriental Christian and Greek hagiography from the early Byzantine world (ca. 400-800 CE) -- 12 "Pour out the blood and remove the evil from him": the creation of a ritual of birth ('aqīqa) in Islam in the eighth century -- 13 Conceptions of children and youth in Carolingian capitularies -- 14 Children and youth in monastic life: Western Europe 400-1250 CE -- 15 Childhood in middle and late Byzantium: ninth to fifteenth centuries -- 16 New perspectives on parent-child relationships in early Europe: Jewish legal views from the High Middle Ages -- 17 Voci puerili : children in Dante's Divine Comedy -- 18 Viking childhood -- 19 Reactions to the death of infants and children in premodern Muslim societies: children in Marʿi Ibn Yusuf's plague and consolation treatises -- 20 Perceptions of children in medieval England -- Bibliography -- Index.