The Making of Fornication
Subtitle: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (Hellenistic Culture and Society, 40)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 4, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780520235991
Subjects: Christian moral & pastoral theology; Early Church; Ethics & moral philosophy; History of ideas, intellectual history; Religion - Theology; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; Sex; Christianity - History - General; Religion; Ancient Greece; History of doctrines; Ancient - Greece; Christian Theology - Ethics; Sexuality & Gender Studies; History / Ancient / General; Sexual ethics; Religious aspects; Christianity; Antiquities & Archaeology; History; Philosophy, Ancient
First sentence: In this study I aim to resolve an important philosophical and historical problem about the making of sexual morality in Western culture: Do the patristic sexual rules of second-century Christianity differ notably from the Greek philosophical sexual principles that the patristic writers used to help formulate their own?