Our Divine Double

Our Divine Double
Author: Charles M. Stang
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0674970187


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What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.