Описание: Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers of Priscillian and to reevaluate the reliability of the historical record. Her analysis takes into account the concepts of gender, authority, and public and private space that informed established religion's response to this early Christian movement.
Priscillian, who began his career as a lay teacher with particular influence among women, faced charges of heresy along with accusations of sorcery and sexual immorality following his ordination to the episcopacy. He was executed along with several of his followers circa 386. His purportedly "gnostic" doctrines produced controversy and division within the churches of Spain, dissension that continued into the early decades of the fifth century.
Burrus's thorough and wide-ranging study enlarges upon previous scholarship, particularly in bringing a feminist perspective to bear on the gendered constructions of religious orthodoxies, making a valuable contribution to the recent commentary that explores new ways of looking at early Christian controversies.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996.
Автор: Burrus Virginia Название: Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things ISBN: 0812250796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812250794 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8772.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In our age of ecological crisis, what insights—if any—can we expect to find by looking to our past? Perhaps, suggests Virginia Burrus, early Christianity might yield usable insights. Turning aside from the familiar specter of Christianity's human-centered theology of dominion, Burrus directs our attention to aspects of ancient Christian thought and practice that remain strange and alien. Drawn to excess and transgression, in search of transformation, early Christians creatively reimagined the universe and the human, cultivating relationships with a wide range of other beings—animal, vegetable, and mineral; angelic and demonic; divine and earthly; large and small. In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between early Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought. In the first section, she explores how the mysterious figure of khora, drawn from Plato's Timaeus, haunts Christian and Jewish accounts of a creation envisioned as varyingly monstrous, unstable, and unknowable. In the second section, she explores how hagiographical literature queers notions of nature and places the very category of the human into question, in part by foregrounding the saint's animality, in part by writing the saint into the landscape. The third section considers material objects, as small as portable relics and icons, as large as church and monastery complexes. Ancient Christians considered all of these animate beings, simultaneously powerful and vulnerable, protective and in need of protection, lovable and loving. Viewed through the shifting lenses of an ancient ecopoetics, Burrus demonstrates how humans both loomed large and shrank to invisibility, absorbed in the rapture of a strange and animate ecology.
Автор: Burrus A. Embry Название: The Life We Choose: A Sibling`s Story ISBN: 0998636223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998636221 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Growing up as the sibling of someone with Down syndrome, author Embry Burrus was never really aware of her sister Margaret's disability. While writing down childhood memories to preserve Margaret's story for future generations, Burrus gained some startling insights into her parents' lives, and most unexpectedly into her own life. With humor and candor, Burrus examines how her sister has impacted, and continues to impact, those who have been fortunate enough to get to know Margaret. According to Burrus, "Margaret's heart knows no judgment, no deceit, and no hatred. She is a beautiful, perfect example of all that is good in this world." The world could certainly benefit from more of that.
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About The Author
David A. Burrus is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, philanthropist, and Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur. He addresses thousands of people each year on personal and professional development. His vision as an extraordinary leader is to get people from where they are to where they never have been.
Автор: Burrus Harry Название: Layers: New & Selected Poems ISBN: 0615630456 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615630458 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The poetry of Harry Burrus is highly diverse. It reveals the importance of visual imagery and movement in his imagination. In some of his poems, there are echoes of images experienced in the open street and of the close connection between everyday life, the written world, collages and art that were so important to Surrealist writers such as Andr Breton and Ted Joans. Shades of Breton's Nadja, Louis Aragon's Le Paysan de Paris, and Phillippe Soupault's Les Derni res Nuit de Paris are visible in his Paris poems. His poems of love are often poems of inquiry-a search for compassion and understanding of the other in a confused world. The quest at the heart of Harry Burrus' poetry is not merely a traversing of space and cultures, but also of time and of depth. He seeks to capture love in its various manifestations and to understand its mutability. Whether it is the love that is overwhelming in its simplicity and naturalness, as expressed in the poem "Song," or the shards of uncertainty and disintegration in "A Game of Rules," we feel that Harry Burrus has a profound understanding of the diversity and complexity of human connection-and our inner fragility. In fragments of momentary experience, he manages to capture truths that are universal about people and relationships. He insists on the difficulty, though never the impossibility, of truly coming face to face with another person. He is intensely aware that this only becomes possible in a naked awareness of our true selves and by making ourselves vulnerable to defeat. The same penetrating gaze is focused on places and diverse cultures. Many of his poems are informed by an awareness of other traditions. In one of his most beautiful poems "I Do Not Sleep With Strangers" we witness the transformation of an American into a cosmological being through his exposure to Buddhist thought and the purity of transcendental experience.
If you read the poems of Harry Burrus attentively you will realize that this is a poet of extraordinary vision, a modern day renaissance man, who draws upon a full palette of poetic styles to depict a picture of modern man and woman in all their complexity. He is aware that universal truths can be found in the most banal of experiences, if we can but perceive them. Harry Burrus knows that in each experience we also have the ability to recreate and reorient ourselves and the world around us. This is a poetry of vulnerability but also of hope, suffused with powerful imagery and a vivid imagination that never loses sight of the divine spirit within Man. Layers is the first major retrospective of his entire poetic career and, as such, offers an invaluable insight into one of our finest American poets.
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