TY - BOOK AU - Perkins,Judith TI - The suffering self: pain and narrative representation in early Christian era SN - 0415113636 PY - 1995/// CY - London, New York, N.Y. PB - Routledge KW - Suffering KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - History of doctrines KW - Pain KW - Identification (Religion) N1 - 1. Death as a Happy Ending -- 2. Marriages as Happy Endings -- 3. Pain Without Effect -- 4. Suffering and Power -- 5. Healing and Power: The Acts of Peter -- 6. The Sick Self -- 7. Ideology, Not Pathology -- 8. Saints' Lives: The Community of Sufferers ER -