Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Series:Gender, theory, and religion.
Subjects:
30-600
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Libel and slander > Religious aspects > Christianity > History.
Sex > Rome.
Libel and slander > Rome.
Sexualité > Rome.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Libel and slander
Libel and slander > Religious aspects > Christianity
Sex
Rome (Empire)
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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