1st Edition
The Suffering Self Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era
By Judith Perkins
Copyright 1995
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Suffering Self is a ground-breaking, interdisciplinary study of the spread of Christianity across the Roman empire. Judith Perkins shows how Christian narrative representation in the early empire worked to create a new kind of human self-understanding - the perception of the self as sufferer. Drawing on feminist and social theory, she addresses the question of why forms of suffering like... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Death as a Happy Ending; Chapter 2 Marriages as Happy Endings; Chapter 3 Pain Without Effect; Chapter 4 Suffering and Power; Chapter 5 Healing and Power; Chapter 6 The Sick Self; Chapter 7 Ideology, Not Pathology; Chapter 8 Saints’ Lives;
Biography
Judith Perkins is Professor of Classics and Humanities at Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut.
`Judith Perkins, is a classical scholar with a wide and imaginatve sympathy for the emotional and spiritual dilemmas of the ancient world in which Christianity was born.' - Church Times
