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"Ideal for scholars and students of early Christianity, Dressing for the Resurrection examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminist rhetorical analysis, to situate Tertullian's comments in the broader context of the Roman Empire, and to investigate them as evidence of the productive and disputed role clothing and adornment played in early Christian life and constructions of salvation"--
"Why did the influential Christian thinker, Tertullian of Carthage (160-220 C.E.), while addressing the critical issue of salvation of the flesh, write about clothing? Why did he care what Christians wore? Carly Daniel-Hughes answers that in early Christian communities clothing tied to identity and theology. Placing Tertullian's writings in the Roman culture of dress, she shows that in them men's dress is used to envision Christian masculinity as non-Roman and anti-imperial. His concerns about women's dress, however, reveal internal Christian debates about the nature of the flesh and the possibility of its transformation in to a resurrected, glorious body"--
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Identification (Religion), Clothing and dress, Church history, Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230, Identification (religion), Church history, primitive and early church, ca. 30-600, Rome, religion, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / GeneralPeople
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The salvation of the flesh in Tertullian of Carthage: dressing for the resurrection
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
- 1st ed.
0230117732 9780230117730
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