The making of fornication : eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity /
This work provides a reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. It shows that early Christian goals to eradicate fornication were derived from the sexual rules and poetic norms of the Greek bible.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2003.
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| ISBN: | 9780520929463 0520929462 058545633X 9780585456331 1282356984 9781282356986 9780520235991 0520235991 1597347280 9781597347280 9786612356988 6612356987 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Ancient Greek Sexual Blueprints for Social Order; PART I: GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL SEXUAL REFORMS; 2. Desire's Hunger and Plato the Regulator; 3. Crafting Eros through the Stoic Logos of Nature; 4. The Reproductive Technology of the Pythagoreans; PART II: GREEK BIBLICAL SEXUAL RULES AND THEIR REWORKING BY PAUL AND PHILO; 5. Rival Plans for God's Sexual Program in the Pentateuch and Paul; 6. From the Prophets to Paul: Converting Whore Culture into the Lord's Veiled Bride; 7. Philo's Reproductive City of God.