عنوان

Contested Spaces and Contested Meanings in the Acts of Thomas

شماره

LA126564

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Contested Spaces and Contested Meanings in the Acts of Thomas

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

William "Chip" Gruen

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The agonistic character of the Apocryphal Acts literature has been well documented. The vast majority of these traditions revolve around the apostolic figure battling both demonic and human adversaries. The Acts of Thomas is no exception, showing the protagonist as Christian hero par-excellence, navigating both cosmological and theological adversaries, always emerging triumphant. Beyond the narration of these competitions themselves, however, the reader also witnesses Thomas navigating different places and spaces in his journeys. The dichotomies of deserted/inhabited, public/private, sacred/profane, domestic/communal are all encountered and their meanings adjudicated through the apostolic competitions. This paper will use spatiality theory to interrogate the use of these narrative topoi. In so doing, the role of space will not only be explored in these imagined places of the Acts of Thomas, but implications for the lived experience of the community will be investigated. The agonistic character of the Apocryphal Acts literature has been well documented. The vast majority of these traditions revolve around the apostolic figure battling both demonic and human adversaries. The Acts of Thomas is no exception, showing the protagonist as Christian hero par-excellence, navigating both cosmological and theological adversaries, always emerging triumphant. Beyond the narration of these competitions themselves, however, the reader also witnesses Thomas navigating different places and spaces in his journeys. The dichotomies of deserted/inhabited, public/private, sacred/profane, domestic/communal are all encountered and their meanings adjudicated through the apostolic competitions. This paper will use spatiality theory to interrogate the use of these narrative topoi. In so doing, the role of space will not only be explored in these imagined places of the Acts of Thomas, but implications for the lived experience of the community will be investigated.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

219-233

عنوان

Religion and Theology

شماره جلد

20/3-4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1574-3012

اصطلاح موضوعی

Acts of Thomas

اصطلاح موضوعی

animal

اصطلاح موضوعی

heterodoxy

اصطلاح موضوعی

place

اصطلاح موضوعی

space

اصطلاح موضوعی

symbol

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

William "Chip" Gruen

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15743012-12341260

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y