The making of fornication

Description

This 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, Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory as the foundation of Christian sexual austerity. Rather, Gaca shows that early Christian goals to eradicate fornication were derived from the sexual rules and poetic norms of the Septuagint, or Greek Bible, and that early Christian writers adapted these rules and norms in ways that reveal fascinating insights into the distinctive and largely non-philosophical character of Christian sexual morality. [publisher].

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Other Editions

• The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early ChristianityUniversity of California Press2004-01-01
• Making of FornicationUniversity of California Press2003-01-01
• Making of FornicationUniversity of California Press2003-01-01
• The Making of FornicationHardcoverUniversity of California Press2003-08-04
• The Making of FornicationPaperbackUniversity of California Press2017-10-31