Early Christian Women Lavalle Norman Dawn
Early Christian Women Lavalle Norman Dawn In this Element the author argues that genre deeply affects how early Christian female philosophers are characterized across different works. Based on these…
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Early Christian Women Lavalle Norman Dawn
In this Element the author argues that genre deeply affects how early Christian female philosophers are characterized across different works. Based on these examples, the author demonstrates that the narrative sources tend to eschew secular education, while the dialogic sources are open to displays of secular knowledge. The included case studies are three women who feature in both narrative and dialogic texts: Thecla, Macrina the Younger and Monica.
The author further argues that these female philosophers were held up in their femininity as models for imitation by both women and Philosophy was not only seen as a way of life, but sometimes also as a mode of educated argumentation.