Elizabeth A. Clark (1938–2021)

Author of Women in the Early Church

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About the Author

Elizabeth A. Clark is the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Emerita, at Duke University. Her previous books include History, Theory, Text; Reading Renunciation; Founding the Fathers; and The Fathers Refounded.

Includes the name: Elizabeth Ann Clark

Also includes: Elizabeth Clark (7)

Works by Elizabeth A. Clark

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Women in the Early Church (1983) 163 copies

Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought (1977) 160 copies

History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn (2004) 100 copies

Reading Renunciation (1999) 33 copies

The Origenist Controversy (1992) 30 copies

Founding the Fathers: Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth-Century America (Divinations:… (2011) 11 copies

Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem (Women in Antiquity) (2021) 8 copies

Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith: Essays on Late Ancient Christianity (Studies in Women and Religion) (1986) 7 copies, 1 review

Jerome, Chrysostom, and friends : essays and translations (1979) 7 copies

Two Theological Languages and Other Essays in Honor of His Work (Texts and studies in religion) (1977) 6 copies

Golden Bough, the Oaken Cross (1981) 3 copies

The Fathers Refounded: Protestant Liberalism, Roman Catholic Modernism, and the Teaching of Ancient Christianity in… (2019) 3 copies

Church History: Studies in Christianity & Culture (March 1998) 2 copies

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. LIX, No. 2, Summer 1991 (1991) 2 copies

Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Volume LVI Number Three, Fall 1988) 1 copy

Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Volume LVI Number Four, Winter 1988) (1988) 1 copy

Journal of early Christian studies spring 1994 volume 2 number 1 (1994) 1 copy

Religion and Law in the United States (2016) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Late Ancient Christianity (2005) — Contributor — 123 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (2008) — Contributor — 94 copies, 1 review

St. Augustine on marriage and sexuality (1996) — Editor, some editions — 52 copies

Augustine and Postmodernism (2005) — Contributor — 32 copies

Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (Studies in Antiquity & Christianity) (1988) — Contributor — 32 copies, 1 review

Asceticism (1995) — Contributor — 26 copies

Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern… (2001) — Contributor — 20 copies, 1 review

Ye Shall Bear Record of Me: Talks from the 2001 BYU Women's Conference (2002) — Contributor — 19 copies

Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience (2004) — Contributor — 17 copies

That Gentle Strength: Historical Perspectives on Women in Christianity (1990) — Contributor — 16 copies

Gender, Tradition, and Romans: Shared Ground, Uncertain Borders (Romans Through History & Culture) (2005) — Contributor — 15 copies

Paul and the Legacies of Paul (1990) — Contributor — 14 copies

The Limits of Ancient Christianity: Essays on Late Antique Thought and Culture in Honor of R. A. Markus (1999) — Contributor — 11 copies

Portraits of spiritual authority : religious power in early Christianity, Byzantium, and the Christian Orient (1999) — Contributor — 8 copies

A Feminist Companion to Patristic Literature (Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings) (2008) — Contributor — 8 copies

The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries (2005) — Contributor — 7 copies

Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (2005) — Contributor — 4 copies

Körper und Seele: Aspekte spätantiker Anthropologie (2006) — Contributor — 4 copies

From Rome to Constantinople: Studies in Honour of Averil Cameron (Late Antique History and Religion) (2007) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Birthdate: 1938-09-27
Date of death: 2021-09-07
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Port Chester, New York, USA
Education: Columbia University (1965)
Occupations: academic
Awards and honors: Distinguished Service Award, North American Patristics Society (2006)
Distinguished Achievement Award, American Society of Church History (2003)
Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala (2000-2001)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988)
Fellow, National Humanities Center (1988) (show all 7)
Senior Fellow, American Academy at Rome

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Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith: Essays on… by Elizabeth Ann Clark

This was such an enlightening read. Each of the thirteen essays in Clark's volume give an insightful look at women's roles in the ascetic movement of the late ancient Christian period and provide a thorough exploration of the communications between patristic church fathers that have left a lingering impression on women's roles in the church and world for the past 2,000 years. Interestingly, the celibate lifestyle was not only a way for women to draw closer to God, but a way to escape the "slavery of marriage" and practice self-government in small communities. Women are both dehumanized and infused with the divine by the men who write about them, alternatively "the devil's gateway" and "bride of Christ". At turns bizarre, humorous, angering and heartening, Clark's reexamination of ancient church history is anything but boring.… (more)

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