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Author Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-

Title Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity / Jennifer Wright Knust
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xviii. 279 pages)
Series Gender, theory, and religion
Gender, theory, and religion.
Contents Introduction: Who's on top? : sex talk, power, and resistance -- Sexual slander and ancient invective -- Paul, the slaves of desire, the the saints of God -- Sexual vice and Christian Apologia -- The false teachers of the end time -- Illicit sex, wicked desire, and the demonized heretic
Summary 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 marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and ""heretics, "" who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through caref
Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Libel and slander -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
Sex -- Rome
Libel and slander -- Rome
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Libel and slander
Libel and slander -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Sex
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0231510047
9780231510042
9786613627971
6613627976