Elizabeth Clark

Reading Renunciation

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a general discussion of early Christian teachings on celibacy and marriage, the book is a close examina...

Piano Theory: Primer (David Carr Glover Piano Library)

The Theory Books of the DAVID CARR GLOVER PIANO LIBRARY are written in "programed instruction" style, one of the most effective means of learning in modern education. Programed instruction is based on three generally accepted principles: 1. The material is presented in small steps called "frames." 2...

Piano Theory: Level 1 (David Carr Glover Piano Library)

The Theory Books of the DAVID CARR GLOVER PIANO LIBRARY are written in "programmed instruction" style, one of the most effective means of learning in modern education. Programmed instruction is based on three generally accepted principles: 1. The material is presented in small steps called "frames."...

Freakboy

From the outside, Brendan Chase seems to have it pretty easy. He's a star wrestler, a video game aficionado, and a loving boyfriend to his seemingly perfect match, Vanessa. But on the inside, Brendan struggles to understand why his body feels so wrong―why he sometimes fantasizes having long hair, so...

Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)

Through their teaching of early Christian history and theology, Elizabeth A. Clark contends, Princeton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary functioned as America's closest equivalents to graduate schools in the humanities during the nine...

Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the most outstanding volume on women in ChristianityA classic in the field of religious studies since its original publication in 1977, Women and Religion has remained the definitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Chris...

The Origenist Controversy: The Cultural Construction of an Early Christian Debate (Princeton Legacy Library)

Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his specul...

History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn

In this work of sweeping erudition, one of our foremost historians of early Christianity considers a variety of theoretical critiques to examine the problems and opportunities posed by the ways in which history is written. Elizabeth Clark argues forcefully for a renewal of the study of premodern Wes...

Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages

Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages

Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity

Reading Renunciation - Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity

Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith: Essays on Late Ancient Christianity

Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought

History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn

History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn