Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/sgm1gM This Female Man of God Women and Spiritual Power in the Patristic Age, 350-450 AD By: Gillian Cloke Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415094702, 0415094704 eText ISBN: 9781134868254, 1134868251 Edition: 1st Pages: 256 Copyright year: 2004 Format: PDF Available from $ 54.95 USD SKU 9781134868254 This book is a study of the contribution of women to the development of the newly legitimate Christian church in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. There are many women noted for the example of their life in this period, regarded amongst the luminaries of the day; but while their male mentors, the patristic authors have retained their fame, the women who surrounded and influenced them have all but disappeared from sight. The women themselves are partly to blame for this, for in order to be pious it made sense to disguise one's sex sometimes literally: Dr Cloke gives examples of those whose sex was discovered only after their death - they sought to become androgynous, a third sex before God. This book looks at a multitude of examples in some detail and takes an overview of the role of Christian women at this time. It should appeal not only to historians, classicists and theologians, but also to anyone who takes a general interest in the changing status of women over the the centuries. Additional ISBNs 9780415094702, 9780415094696, 0415094704, 0415094690
