Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is author of Ancient Christian Ecopoetics and Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Virginia Burrus: The Sex Lives of Saints
Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assu …
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Virginia Burrus: Saving Shame
Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the …
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Virginia Burrus: Ancient Christian Ecopoetics
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 fr …
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Virginia Burrus & Catherine Keller: Toward a Theology of Eros
What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfi …
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€43.99
Hans-Ulrich Weidemann: Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity
From the beginning many of the early Christian communities led an ascetic lifestyle, although a good number of New Testament texts do not seem suitable for justifying radical ascetic and encratite pr …
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Thomas Arentzen & Virginia Burrus: Byzantine Tree Life
This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascinat …
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€96.29
Virginia Burrus & Catherine Keller: Toward a Theology of Eros
What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfi …
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€45.11
Virginia Burrus: The Making of a Heretic
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, Virg …
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€39.99
Virginia Burrus: Earthquakes and Gardens
Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography. In Jerome s Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the …
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