MLA Commons | John Penniman | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/jpenniman/activity/ Activity feed for John Penniman. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:12:47 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2c889d2aae7533a1e261c5962a2d304b John Penniman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862307/ Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:29:08 -0400 0 bc030cbd01fe187bc285fe5fcd58e40d John Penniman deposited Fed to Perfection: Mother's Milk, Roman Family Values, and the Transformation of the Soul in Gregory of Nyssa in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774714/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:27:03 -0400 Prompted by Michel Foucault’s observation that “salvation is first of all essentially subsistence,” this essay explores Gregory of Nyssa’s discussion of Christian spiritual formation as a kind of salvific and transformative feeding of infants. This article argues that the prominent role of nourishment—and specifically breast milk—in Gregory’s t…[Read more]

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