Abandoned to Lust Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity

Name: Abandoned to Lust Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity
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ISBN: 9780231136624

ISBN-10: 0231136625

ISBN-13: 9780231136624

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jennifer Knust

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Adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior were some of the charges that early Christians used to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Early Christian writers claimed that unlike Jews, Romans, and Greeks, who were supposedly unable to control their desires, Christians and Christians alone were sexually virtuous. Regardless of whether the charges were true, they allowed Christians to see themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Knust explores the arguments made by Paul and others that belief in Christ made self-mastery possible. Throughout her work, Knust highlights the complex…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/9/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: Who's on Top? Sex Talk, Power, and Resistance



Sexual Slander and Ancient Invective



Paul, the Slaves of Desire, and the Saints of God



Sexual Vice and Christian Apologia



The False Teachers of the End Time



Illicit Sex, Wicked Desire, and the Demonized Heretic


Notes


Bibliography


Index