Introduction: The Layered Valuation of the Human Body in Early Christian Mystagogy

Paul van Geest; Nienke Vos

doi:10.2307/j.ctv2tjd6xw.3

Introduction: The Layered Valuation of the Human Body in Early Christian Mystagogy

Paul van Geest
, Nienke Vos

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Ground-breaking studies on the importance of asceticism and its implications, such as those by Henri Crouzel and later Elizabeth Clark, seem to leave no room for doubt. In his Virginité et mariage selon Origène (1963), the former already concluded what the latter emphasized even more emphatically in her Reading Renunciation. Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity (1999): for early Christian authors, the origin of human impurity lies in human corporeity.

Crouzel inferred from Origen’s work that this Church Father considered every human being to be born physically impure, because the sexual intercourse in which his or her parents engaged occasioned...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Early Christian Mystagogy and the Body
Editors	Nienke Vos, Paul van Geest
Place of Publication	Leuven
Publisher	Peeters
Pages	1-18
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9789042948518
ISBN (Print)	9789042948501
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tjd6xw.3
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Name	Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia
Publisher	Peeters
Volume	83

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