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Abstract Tertullian of Carthage uses the Stoic and Epicurean theories of vision to construct a hierarchy in terms of bodily intactness and penetrability: God sees with Stoic rays and remains intact against harmful sights, while humans see by means of Epicurean intromission and are penetrated and transformed by harmful sights. The further up the hierarchy, the more intact and ray-like, but the further down the hierarchy, the more porous and penetrable. Tertullian proposes a prescription for Christian vision that is grounded in embodied difference along his understanding of gendered bodies. We see the world differently, and through these visual theories, Tertullian offers his rationale for that difference as well as his prescription for visual piety of beards and veils.

Author

Emily R. Cain

Publisher

Oxford University PressNew York

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197663387

Subjects

Anthropology, Christian, Religion