The care of the self in early Christian texts / Deborah Niederer Saxon.

This book presents the first three Christian centuries through the lens of what Foucault called "the care of the self." This lens reveals a rich variation among early Christ movements by illuminating their practices instead of focusing on what we anachronistically assume to have been their...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Saxon, Deborah Niederer (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Series:	Bible and cultural studies.
Subjects:	Nag Hammadi codices. Christian literature, Early > Criticism, Textual. Martyrologies > History and criticism. Gnosticism > History. Christian literature, Early. Gnosticism. Martyrologies. History. Criticism, interpretation, etc.