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The making of fornication : eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity

Author: Kathy L Gaca
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.; Hellenistic culture and society, 40.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kathy L Gaca
ISBN: 0520235991 9780520235991
OCLC Number: 50417221
Description: xvii, 359 p. ; 24 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.
Series Title: Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.; Hellenistic culture and society, 40.
Responsibility: Kathy L. Gaca.
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