The Making of Fornication : Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity

by: Gaca, K.L.

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The making of fornication : eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity
Author:Kathy L. Gaca

Summary:This work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory as the foundation of Christian sexual austerity. Rather, Gaca shows that early Christian goals to eradicate fornication were derived from the sexual rules and poetic norms of the Septuagint, or Greek Bible, and that early Christian writers adapted these rules and norms in ways that reveal fascinating insights into the distinctive and largely non-philosophical character of Christian sexual morality.

Contents:
1. Introduction: Ancient Greek Sexual Blueprints for Social Order; PART I: GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL SEXUAL REFORMS; 2. Desire's Hunger and Plato the Regulator; 3. Crafting Eros through the Stoic Logos of Nature; 4. The Reproductive Technology of the Pythagoreans; PART II: GREEK BIBLICAL SEXUAL RULES AND THEIR REWORKING BY PAUL AND PHILO; 5. Rival Plans for God's Sexual Program in the Pentateuch and Paul; 6. From the Prophets to Paul: Converting Whore Culture into the Lord's Veiled Bride; 7. Philo's Reproductive City of God

Series:
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature, 40

xvii, 359 pages ; 24 cm.

The Making of Fornication : Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity

by: Gaca, K.L.

• ISBN-13: 9780520235991 / 978-0-520-23599-1
• ISBN-03: 0520235991 / 0-520-23599-1
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003

Price: 89,00 EURO

1 copy in stock