Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things
In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion Ser
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Burrus, Virginia: Ancient Christian Ecopoetics : Cosmologies, Saints, Things. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2018. - 9780812250794 |
| Summary: | In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedicationi -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Beginning Again with Khora: Traces of a Dark Cosmology -- Prelude: Anticipations of an Eco-Chorology -- Dreaming Khora: Plato's Timaeus -- Interlude: Fragments of an Eco-Chorology -- Khoric Legacies: Readers of Timaeus and Genesis -- Interlude: Beginning Again with Scripture -- In/Conclusion: Khora, God, Materiality -- Postlude: Beginnings, Again -- II. Queering Creation: Hagiography without Humans -- Prelude: Ecocriticism as Queer Theory -- Before Hagiography, Autozoography: The Life of Plotinus -- Queerly Ecological: The Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt -- Interlude: Desertification -- Holy Disfigurations: The Life of Syncletica -- Saint as Posthuman Assemblage: The Life of Simeon the Stylite -- Interlude: Performance Art -- In/Conclusion: Saints and Other Queer Creatures -- Postlude: A Tough Love -- III. Things and Practices: Arts of Coexistence -- Prelude: Theorizing Things -- Feeling Things: Relics and Icons in an Animate World -- Situating Things: Architecture, Landscape, Cosmos -- Interlude: Fragments of a Material Theology of Things -- Speaking Things: Rhetoric and Performativity in Basil's Hexameron -- Desiring Things: Contemplation, Creation, and God in Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius -- Interlude: Words and Things -- In/Conclusion: Things, Practices, Piety -- Postlude: The Things That Matter -- Epilogue: Worm Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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| ISBN: | 0812295722 |