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

Series:
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature, 40, XL

xvii, 359 pages ; 23 cm.

Contents:
Introduction: Ancient Greek sexual blueprints for social order
I: Greek philosophical sexual reforms
Desire's hunger and Plato the regulator
Crafting eros through the stoic logos of nature
The reproductive technology of the Pythagoreans
II: Greek biblical sexual rules and their reworking by Paul and Philo
Rival plans for God's sexual program in the Pentateuch and Paul
From the Prophets to Paul: Converting whore culture into the Lord's veiled bride
Philo's reproductive city of God
III: Patristic transformations of the philosophical, Pauline, and Philonic rules
Driving Aphrodite from the world: Tatian and his encratite argument
Prophylactic grace in Clement's emergent church sexual ethic
The fornicating justice of Epiphanes
Conclusion: The demise of Greek eros and reproduction

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

by: Gaca, K.L.

• ISBN-13: 9780520296176 / 978-0-520-29617-6
• ISBN-03: 0520296176 / 0-520-29617-6
• University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003

Price: 34,00 EURO

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