Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagaste to Teresa of Avila (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)

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Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagaste to Teresa of Avila (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)

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This volume is a cultural analysis of the home during the Christian centuries, when home was believed to be heaven. It investigates the traditional belief in the divine indwelling - but by reversing the history of doctrine to venture doctrine as history. Analysis proceeds not by speculation on faculties of the soul but by research on actualities of housing. What did believers experience about habitat? its relationships? its rooms? The book examines four cultural constructs of dwelling: the inn, the sanctuary, the villa, and the castle. Its focus is the hearth as the familial place. A lesson in alterity, it exposes the rejection of the divine indwelling as at home (John 14:23). It discovers a fundamental disparity between domesticity and the asceticism that dominated western civilization.

Divine Domesticity: Augustine of Thagaste to Teresa of Avila (Studies in the History of Christian Thought),M. O'Rourke Boyle,Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle,Brill Academic Publishers,9004106758,Architecture,Christianity,Church And Society,History,History of doctrines,History: World,Home,Interior Design - General,Medieval,Religion,Religious aspects

Book Contents:

  1. Early French and German Defenses of Freedom of the Press (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 113) (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
  2. Early Mamluk Diplomacy: Treaties of Baybars and Qalawun With Christian Rulers (Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, Vol)
  3. Ecclesia Reformata: Studies on the Reformation (Kerkhistorische Bijdragen, No 16)
  4. Elizabethan & Jacobean Style
  5. Emyl Jenkins' Southern Christmas
  6. Erasmus: Der Humanist Als Theologe Und Kirchenreformer (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought , No 59)
  7. Erotic Colour Prints of Ming Period: With an Essay on Chinese Sex Life from the Han to the Ching Dynasty, B.C. 206-A.D. 1644 (Sinica Leidensia)
  8. Feng Shui Today
  9. From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies: Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth Century (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)
  10. Fruits & Flowers

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