Specters of Paul: Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought

Contents

C o n t e n t s Introduction: Sexual Difference and Paul’s Adam-Christ Typology 1 Part I. The Platonic Woman Chapter 1. The Many Become One: Theological Monism and the Problem of the Female Body 31 Chapter 2. Desire and the Feminine: Clement of Alexandria’s Displacement of Eve 51 Chapter 3. What Sort of Thing Is This Luminous Woman? Sexual Dimorphism in On the Origin of the World 75 Part II. Flesh and Virginity Chapter 4. Virgin Earth, Virgin Birth: Irenaeus of Lyons and the Predicaments of Recapitulation 97 Chapter 5. The Contrary Operation: Resignifying the Unpenetrated Body in Tertullian of Carthage 124 Conclusion: Specters of Paul 151 List of Abbreviations 159 Notes 163 x Contents Bibliography 217 Index 243 Acknowledgments 251 ...