TY  - GEN
T1  - Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity
T2  - Gender, theory, and religion.
A1  - Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm64394429
AB  - 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
OP  - 279
NO  - Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.
CN  - BR195.S48 K58 2006eb
SN  - 0231510047
SN  - 9780231510042
SN  - 9786613627971
SN  - 6613627976
SN  - 0231136625
SN  - 9780231136624
KW  - Sex : Religious aspects : Christianity : History of doctrines : Early church, ca. 30-600.
KW  - Libel and slander : Religious aspects : Christianity : History.
KW  - Sex : Rome.
KW  - Libel and slander : Rome.
KW  - Sexualité : Rome.
KW  - RELIGION : Christian Theology : Ethics.
KW  - RELIGION : Christianity : History.
KW  - Libel and slander
KW  - Libel and slander : Religious aspects : Christianity
KW  - Sex
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - 30-600
KW  - History
ER  -