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 | #2337685 in Books |  University of California Press |  2003-08-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.00 x6.00l,1.52 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||4 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Disappointing. Poor use of primary source material.|By Ivy Family|I was hoping for solid scholarship that would capably offer and explain primary source material, and give a good idea of what "porneia" would have meant in the first century. The first section on Platonism was not bad, and statements were supported with in-line citations much of the time to relevant material. |"This is an extensive study of the theorizing about sexual norms and proprieties of certain major Greek philosophical traditions on the one hand (Platonism, Stoicism, Pythagoreanism), and various key figures of the Judeo-Christian tradition on the other (Philo

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 prop...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity   |  Kathy L. Gaca.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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