The Artificiality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism

In The Artificiality of Christianity, the author's primary goal is to distill from monastic literature a poetical tool that can be used to decipher the literary structure of religious texts; a secondary goal is to show the centrality of monasticism to the specific experiences of Christian reading.

Author: M. B. Pranger
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/17/2002
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 11.38h x 6.88w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780804745246

About the Author
M. B. Pranger is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Amsterdam. His most recent book is Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought.

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