An ecstasy of folly : prophecy and authority in early Christianity /
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| Author / Creator: | Nasrallah, Laura Salah, 1969- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2003. |
| Description: | xii, 225 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard theological studies ; no. 52 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5064127 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Taxonomies of Ecstasy, Madness, and Dreams
- Platonism and Madness
- "Stand Outside of Yourself": Philo's Taxonomy of Ecstasy
- The Early-Third-Century Debate
- Ch. 2. "For We Know only in Part and We Prophesy only in Part": Spiritual Gifts and Epistemology in 1 Corinthians
- 1 Corinthians and "Christian" Prophecy
- Human Wisdom, Divine Folly, and the Politics of Identity: Who Are the Pneumarikoi?
- One Body
- Ranking Pneumatika
- 1 Corinthians 13: Love Trumps Wisdom
- Ch. 3. Tertullian and the Soul's Condition
- Locating Tertullian
- Tertullian the Philosopher, Tertullian the Antiphilosopher
- De anima
- Ch. 4. Ecstasy as Madness: Tertullian and the Competition over Spiritual Gifts
- The Soul and the Spirit
- Tertullian's Debate with the Psychici
- Spiritual Gifts and the Periodization of History
- Ch. 5. "An Ecstasy of Folly": The Sound and Unsound Mind in Epiphanius's Anti-Phrygian Source
- Inventing Montanism
- Reading With Epiphanius
- Reading Without Epiphanius: The Anti-Phrygian Source (Pan. 48.1.4-13.8)
- The Discourse of Periodizing History: The Catalog of Past Prophets
- Ancient and Modern Discourses.