Abandoned to Lust : : Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity / / Jennifer Knust.
Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those mark...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender, Theory, and Religion
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Who'S on Top? Sex Talk, Power, and Resistance
- 1. Sexual Slander and Ancient Invective
- 2. Paul, the Slaves of Desire, and the Saints of God
- 3. Sexual Vice and Christian Apologia
- 4. The False Teachers of the End Time
- 5. Illicit Sex, Wicked Desire, and the Demonized Heretic
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index