Each strikes at the sensitive core of our being.
Few topics generate heat and controversy so readily today.
Decisions made in the first centuries of the Christian era still haunt us. T he history of western attempts to deal with the problem of marriage and sexuality thus has a special claim to our attention. A glum tale of the continuing influence of the dominant white male it does seem. For the historian intent on a comprehensive view of a culture, it offers quite as good a starting point as politics, one with its own still fresh perspective. Lectures will review the readings in historical perspective and supplement them.