Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity
Jennifer Wright Knust
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : Columbia University Press , c2006
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| Omfang | XVII, 279 s.
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| Opplysninger | Bygd på forfatterens dr.avh. - Columbia University, 2001.. - CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xiii; INTRODUCTION: Who's on Top? Sex Talk, Power, and Resistance 1; 1. Sexual Slander and Ancient Invective 15; 2. Paul, the Slaves of Desire, and the Saints of God 51; 3. Sexual Vice and Christian Apologia 89; 4. The False Teachers of the End Time 113; 5. Illicit Sex, Wicked Desire, and the Demonized Heretic 143; NOTES 165; BIBLIOGRAPHY 237; INDEX 271. - Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and ""heretics,"" who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them.Through caref
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| Emner | Libel and slander - Religious aspects Christianity History
Libel and slander - Rome Sex - Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines Sex - Rome Vis mer... Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity Philosophy & Religion Religion historie kristendom seksualitet dogmehistorie oldkirken |
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| ISBN | 0231136625
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