Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity /

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 mark...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: New York : Columbia University Press ©2006.
Saila:Gender, theory, and religion.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/knus13662
Aurkibidea:
  • Introduction: Who's on top? : sex talk, power, and resistance
  • Sexual slander and ancient invective
  • Paul, the slaves of desire, the the saints of God
  • Sexual vice and Christian Apologia
  • The false teachers of the end time
  • Illicit sex, wicked desire, and the demonized heretic.