{"product_id":"the-corporeal-imagination-patricia-cox-miller-9780812223552","title":"The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In \u003ci\u003eThe Corporeal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Corporeal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Cox Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812223551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812223552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d","brand":"Patricia Cox Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980583796991,"sku":"9780812223552","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15b12bb3-cb84-431f-9f58-b7c635df7802.jpg?v=1683250731","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-corporeal-imagination-patricia-cox-miller-9780812223552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}