224040 SE Patrology /Church History: Orthodoxy and Heresy: Michel Foucalt, the Church Fathers and Sexuality
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SE Patrology /Church History: Orthodoxy and Heresy: Michel Foucalt, the Church Fathers and Sexuality
SE 2
4
weekly
each semester
German
knowledge regarding a central (moral) theological discourse in early Christianity; sensitization for the historical contexts of sexuality
introduction to the understanding of sexuality in patristic texts; on the basis of Foucault's posthumously published book "Les aveux de la chair"; historical contextualisation of the discourse
common reading, presentation, paper
oral and written
M. Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité. Tom. 4: Les aveux de la chair, Paris 2018.
P. Brown, The Body and Society. Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, New York 1988.
R.D. Finn, Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World, Cambridge 2009.
none
08.10.2020
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