Format:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 359 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520235991
Series Statement:
Hellenistic culture and society 40
Content:
This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory-with their proposed reforms of eroticism, the family, and civic order-as the foundation of Christian sexual austerity. Rather, in this thoroughly infor
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-335) and index
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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
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PART III: PATRISTIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL, PAULINE, AND PHILONIC RULES8. Driving Aphrodite from the World: Tatian and His Encratite Argument; 9. Prophylactic Grace in Clement's Emergent Church Sexual Ethic; 10. The Fornicating Justice of Epiphanes; 11. Conclusion: The Demise of Greek Eros and Reproduction; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; REFERENCES TO ANCIENT WORKS; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; X; Z; REFERENCES TO MODERN WORKS; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; SUBJECT INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S
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TV; W; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520235991
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Making of Fornication : Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity
Language:
English
