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The making of fornication : eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity / Kathy L. Gaca.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hellenistic culture and society ; 39.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 359 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520929463
  • 0520929462
  • 058545633X
  • 9780585456331
  • 1282356984
  • 9781282356986
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making of fornication.DDC classification:
  • 241/.66/09015 21
LOC classification:
  • BT708 .G33 2003eb
Other classification:
  • 15.51
  • BK 6400
  • BO 1995
  • CD 1610
  • 5,1
  • 6,12
  • 08.21
Online resources:
Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-335) and index.

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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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 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.

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