Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity: 40 (Hellenistic Culture and Society) - Image 1

£70.85

University of California Press Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity: 40 (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

Name: Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity: 40 (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Brand: University of California Press
Price: 65.32 GBP
Availability: InStock

Greece

Price data checked 5 days ago

View at Amazon

Price History & Forecast

Last 86 days • 86 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 86 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £65 (63 days, 73.3%)

Price range: £61 - £71

Price levels: 3 different prices over 86 days

Description

This provocative 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, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory-with their proposed reforms of eroticism, the family, and civic order-as the foundation of Christian sexual austerity. Rather, in this thoroughly informed and wide-ranging study, 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. Writing with an authoritative command of both Greek philosophy and early Christian writings, Gaca investigates Plato, the Stoics, the Pythagoreans, Philo of Alexandria, the apostle Paul, and the patristic Christians Clement of Alexandria, Tatian, and Epiphanes, freshly elucidating their ideas on sexual reform with precision, depth, and originality. Early Christian writers, she demonstrates, transformed all that they borrowed from Greek ethics and political philosophy to launch innovative programs against fornication that were inimical to Greek cultural mores, popular and philosophical alike. The Septuagint's mandate to worship the Lord alone among all gods led to a Christian program to revolutionize Gentile sexual practices, only for early Christians to find this virtually impossible to carry out without going to extremes of sexual renunciation. Knowledgeable and wide-ranging, this work of intellectual history and ethics cogently demonstrates why early Christian sexual restrictions took such repressive ascetic forms, and casts sobering light on what Christian sexual morality has meant for religious pluralism in Western culture, especially among women as its bearers.

Product Specifications

Brand: University of California Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0520235991
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > Greece
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 August 2003
Listed Since: 09 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

University of California Press Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity: 40 (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Josephus, Paul, and the Fate of Early Christianity: History and Silence in the First Century

Christianity and the Secular (Blessed Pope John XXIII Lecture Series in Theology and Culture)

Sophrosune in the Greek Novel: Reading Reactions to Desire

Disability, Medicine, and Healing Discourse in Early Christianity: New Conversations for Health Humanities (Religion, Medicine and Health in in Late Antiquity)

Gregory of Nazianzuss Letter Collection: The Complete Translation: 7 (Christianity in Late Antiquity)

Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century: 13 (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 13)

Morality and Religion: The Jewish Story (Jewish Thought and Philosophy)

De Rebus Indicis Ad Philippum Catholicum Hispaniarum et Indiarum Regem Libri Sep (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)

Early Christian Dress: Gender, Virtue, and Authority (Routledge Studies in Ancient History)

Why can't we stop!: How to avoid menticide: the 2020's cause of acting & thinking recklessly

Poetarum Epicorum Graecorum T CB: Testimonia Et Fragmenta (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana)

Strategoí: Early Byzantine Military Commanders in the Times of Zeno and Anastasius I (474–518) (Byzantina Lodziensia)

The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, Volume IX Recently Discovered Additions to Early Christian Literature; C: 9

KJV, Life in the Spirit Study Bible, Bonded Leather, Black, Thumb Indexed, Red Letter: Formerly Full Life Study

Historia del Pensamiento Cristiano Hasta El Siglo XXI: Edición Actualizada Y Ampliada (Colección Historia)

A Monster with a Thousand Hands: The Discursive Spectator in Early Modern England

Carmina Anacreontea (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana)

Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference (Routledge Studies in the Early Christian World)

Seeing the God: Image, Space, Performance, and Vision in the Religion of the Roman Empire: 2 (Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World)

Serve the Power(s), Serve the State: America and Eurasia

Fathers of Church V72 (The Fathers of the Church, 72): Vol. 72: 072

Sex and the Ancient City: Sex and Sexual Practices in Greco-Roman Antiquity: 126 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 126)

EPISTOLARY POETRY IN BYZANTIUM AND BEYOND: An Anthology with Critical Essays

Concluding Unscientific Postscript: 5524 (Princeton Legacy Library)