Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Bestseller
BestsellerE-Book
Author Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-

Title Abandoned to lust : sexual slander and ancient Christianity / Jennifer Wright Knust.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
©2006

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials  EBSCO Ebook    Downloadable
Rocky Hill cardholders click here to access this title from EBSCO
Description 1 online resource (xviii. 279 pages).
Series Gender, theory, and religion
Gender, theory, and religion.
Note Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-270) and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
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.
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.
Other Form: Print version: Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966- Abandoned to lust. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231136625 (DLC) 2005049778 (OCoLC)60605289
ISBN 0231510047 (electronic bk.)
9780231510042 (electronic bk.)
-->
Add a Review