[PDF.21kn] Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism

Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism

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 | #2565309 in Books |  1994-08-30 |  1994-08-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.50 x5.50l,.73 | File type: PDF | 260 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| elegant and witty diversion|By A Customer|This is that unusual mix : a scholarly intellectual polemic which is also hilarious in a dry Brit way - by a young scholar-writer who I hope will soon publish something else soon. The stuff on witchcraft and the conquest of the New World is fascinating and really elegantly done|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.|From Publishers Weekly|Defining sexual pessimism as the "equation of sexual love outside the prerequisites of reproduction with death," and musing that it may be "Catholicism's most eccentric trait," Osborne ( Paris Dreambook ) offers a thoughtful, sometimes ele

The Poisoned Embrace is a provocative investigation into the history of sexual pessimism as it has evolved in Western theology throughout the ages.
 
Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death have formed a theological equation known as sexual pessimism. This aversion to the carnal, and its consequent elevation of the virginal and the chaste, springs not from Christianity, but from Gnosticism.
 
Osborne examines the art, mytholo...

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