ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses Individuality and the Resurrection in Some Late Antique Texts. To delve into and study late antique Christian notions of individuality, it must be stated at the outset, is to be faced with a dramatic disjuncture. Given this development, and as debates about the resurrection of the body were among the means with which notions of Christian identity and individuality were elaborated and through which such notions came into existence, they can be used as a lens through which we can understand the ways in which late antique Christians conceptualized individuality. Alongside other formal treatises and homilies, it is these collections of questions and answers that allow us to follow the rhythm of the worries of late antique society with unusual immediacy and directness. It is in them that the most pressing issues that recurred in the everyday life of late antique Christians are concentrated.