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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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
©2006.
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| Серии: | Gender, theory, and religion.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/knus13662 |
Оглавление:
- 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.