Art of Listening in the Early Church, The WPA2 transduction

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The text balances extensive coverage of available literature in the area with substantive inclusions from new research published in leading journals and volumes

They focus instead on individuals: on what they share and on what each may owe to all the others

Art of Listening in the Early Church, The WPA2 transductionHow did people think about listening in the ancient world, and what evidence do we have of it in practice? The Christian faith came to the illiterate majority in the early Church through their ears. This proved problematic: the senses and the body had long been held in suspicion as all too temporal, mutable and distracting. Carol Harrison argues that despite profound ambivalence on these matters, in practice, the senses, and in particular the sense of