Book ID: CBB642375976

The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity (2022)

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Jessica L. Wright (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 299
Language: English

Cerebral subjectivity—the identification of the individual self with the brain—is a belief that has become firmly entrenched in modern science and popular culture. In The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity, Jessica Wright traces its roots to tensions within early Christianity over the brain’s role in self-governance and its inherent vulnerability. Examining how early Christians appropriated medical ideas, Wright tracks how they used these ideas for teaching ascetic practices, developing therapeutics for the soul, and finding a path to salvation. Bringing a medical lens to religious discourse, this text demonstrates that rather than rejecting medical traditions, early Christianity developed by creatively integrating them.

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Authors & Contributors
Holmes, Brooke
Rotman, Youval
Schillace, Brandy
Vignone, Joseph Leonardo
Calloway B. Scott
Mariangela Monaca
Concepts
Soul (philosophy)
Mind and body
Medicine and religion
Christianity
Medicine
Brain
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
19th century
17th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Scotland
Byzantium
Institutions
Theosophical Society
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