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Author Gaca, Kathy L.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 359 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Hellenistic culture and society ; 39
Hellenistic culture and society ; 39.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-335) and index.
Summary This work provides a reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. It shows that early Christian goals to eradicate fornication were derived from the sexual rules and poetic norms of the Greek bible.
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Subject Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence.
Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Sexual ethics -- History.
Sexual ethics.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Gaca, Kathy L. Making of fornication. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520235991 (DLC) 2002012604 (OCoLC)50417221
ISBN 9780520929463 (electronic book)
0520929462 (electronic book)
058545633X (electronic book)
9780585456331 (electronic book)
1282356984
9781282356986