Incorruptible Bodies: Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity by Yonatan Moss (review)
- Autores: Ellen Muehlberger
- Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2017, págs. 660-661
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Though the model of stereoscopy implies the use of two comparanda, Moss introduces four domains of thought to be considered together: the Christological conversation about incorruptibility that occupied Severus and Julian (Chapter One); the views these men had about the legitimacy of an imperial church (Chapter Two); their ideas about the efficacy of the Eucharist (Chapter Three); and their debates about how to use the writings of earlier Christians as sources of authority (Chapter Four). [...]stereoscopy is not a matter of viewing any two pictures side by side; it is, in topographic science, the practice of viewing side by side two pictures of the same exact landscape, which happen to have been taken at slightly different angles. [...]by its explicit method the book proffers that there is something unified in all these domains, which just need to be viewed a certain way to reveal their unity. Moss in his work is simply joining a tradition of interpretation in early Christian studies based on the same insight, some examples of which he acknowledges in the notes (Martin, Corinthian Body, 1995) while choosing not to cite, or perhaps not being cognizant of, others (Krawiec, Shenoute and the Women, 2001, and Schroeder, Monastic Bodies, 2007, are just two of many, many available options).
