The Song of Songs and the fashioning of identity in early Latin Christianity /

Karl Shuve offers a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of the 'Song of Songs' in the Latin-speaking churches of late antiquity, showing how it was used by bishops and theologians to illuminate complex problems of identity in relation to liturgical practice, doctrinal definitions,...

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Main Author: Shuve, Karl (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
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520 8 |a Karl Shuve offers a comprehensive analysis of the interpretation of the 'Song of Songs' in the Latin-speaking churches of late antiquity, showing how it was used by bishops and theologians to illuminate complex problems of identity in relation to liturgical practice, doctrinal definitions, and ideas about the body and sexuality. 
505 0 |a Cover ; The Song of Songs and the Fashioning of Identity in Early Latin Christianity; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; PERIODICALS AND SERIES; ANCIENT SOURCES; Introduction; 0.1. ESOTERICISM AND EROS: THE SHAPE OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP ON THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION; 0.2. THE ARGUMENT AND SCOPE OF THE BOOK; Part I: The Song of Songs in North Africa and Spain; 1: "A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed": The Church as Closed Community in Cyprian and the Donatists; 1.1. CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE AND THE PROBLEM OF REBAPTISM; 1.1.1. Persecution and the Rebaptism Crisis 
505 8 |a 1.1.2. The Problem of Rebaptism and the Song of Songs1.1.3. The Song of Songs in Cyprian's Letters and De unitate; 1.1.4. The Legacy of Cyprian; 1.2. THE DONATIST SCHISM; 1.2.1. The Origins of the Donatist Schism; 1.2.2. Optatus' Against Parmenian the Donatist; 1.2.3. Traces of Donatist Use of the Song in the Writings of Augustine; 2: "As a Lily among the Thorns": The Church as Mixed Community in Pacian, Tyconius, and Augustine; 2.1. PACIAN OF BARCELONA AND THE NOVATIANS IN SPAIN; 2.1.1. Pacian's Career; 2.1.2. The Correspondence with Simpronian; 2.1.3. The Song of Songs in Pacian's Writings 
505 8 |a 2.2. TYCONIUS AND THE BIPARTITE CHURCH2.2.1. Identifying Tyconius; 2.2.2. Tyconius' Use of the Song of Songs; 2.2.3. The Sources of Tyconius' Exegesis; 2.3. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO AND THE HIDDEN JUDGMENT OF GOD; 2.3.1. Nuptial Theology in Augustine's Thought; 2.3.2. The Song of Songs in Anti-Manichean Polemic; 2.3.3. De Baptismo: The Song, Ritual Purity, and the Corpus Permixtum; 3: "The Church is the Flesh of Christ": The Tractatus de Epithalamio of Gregory of Elvira; 3.1. THE EARLIEST LATIN COMMENTARIES: VICTORINUS OF POETOVIO AND RETICIUS OF AUTUN 
505 8 |a 3.1.1. Victorinus as Commentator and Translator3.1.2. Reticius' Lost Commentary on the Song; 3.2. THE DATE, SETTING, AND STRUCTURE OF THE TRACTATUS; 3.2.1. Textual Considerations; 3.2.2. The Setting of its Composition and Revision; 3.3. FROM INCARNATION TO FINAL JUDGMENT: THE SONG OF SONGS AS HISTORY OF THE CHURCH; 3.3.1. The Incarnation and the Origins of the Church; 3.3.2. The Church's Struggles with "Heretics"; 3.3.3. Crucifixion, Resurrection, and the Kingdom of God; 3.4. CONCLUSION; Part II: The Song of Songs in Italy 
505 8 |a 4: "Like the Holy Church, Unsullied by Intercourse": Ambrose, Virgins, and the Song4.1. WESTERN CONTROVERSY AND EASTERN INFLUENCE; 4.1.1. The Influence of Athanasius; 4.1.2. The Politics of Asceticism; 4.2. DE VIRGINIBUS: VIRGINITY AND THE ANGELIC LIFE; 4.2.1. Virginity and/as Martyrdom; 4.2.2. The Symbolic Significance of Virginity; 4.2.3. The Song's Bride as Consecrated Virgin; 4.3. DE VIRGINITATE: FROM VIRGIN BODIES TO VIRGIN SOULS; 4.3.1. Situating the De Virginitate; 4.3.2. The Formation of the Virgin Soul; 4.3.3. Towards an Ascetic Vision of Christian Identity 
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