LEADER 04458nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910452158203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-59814-X 010 $a9786613627971 010 $a0-231-51004-7 024 7 $a10.7312/knus13662 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460328 035 $a(EBL)908378 035 $a(OCoLC)64394429 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000095999 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11116844 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000095999 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10074524 035 $a(PQKB)11685351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908378 035 $a(DE-B1597)459012 035 $a(OCoLC)1013950571 035 $a(OCoLC)979574227 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510042 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908378 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593277 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362797 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460328 100 $a20050520d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAbandoned to lust$b[electronic resource] $esexual slander and ancient Christianity /$fJennifer Wright Knust 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (280 pages) 225 0 $aGender, Theory, and Religion 225 0$aGender, theory, and religion 300 $aBased on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2001. 311 $a0-231-13662-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-270) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aEarly Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked as outsiders, especially non-believers and "heretics," who were said to be controlled by lust and unable to rein in their carnal desires. True or not, these charges allowed Christians to present themselves as different from and morally superior to those around them. Through careful, innovative readings, Jennifer Knust explores the writings of Paul, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, and other early Christian authors who argued that Christ alone made self-mastery possible. Rejection of Christ led to both immoral sexual behavior and, ultimately, alienation and punishment from God. Knust considers how Christian writers participated in a long tradition of rhetorical invective, a rhetoric that was often employed to defend status and difference. Christians borrowed, deployed, and reconfigured classical rhetorical techniques, turning them against their rulers to undercut their moral and political authority. Knust also examines the use of accusations of licentiousness in conflicts between rival groups of Christians. Portraying rival sects as depraved allowed accusers to claim their own group as representative of "true Christianity." Knust's book also reveals the ways in which sexual slurs and their use in early Christian writings reflected cultural and gendered assumptions about what constituted purity, morality, and truth. In doing so, Abandoned to Lust highlights the complex interrelationships between sex, gender, and sexuality within the classical, biblical, and early-Christian traditions. 410 0$aGender, Theory, and Religion 606 $aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines$yEarly church, ca. 30-600 606 $aLibel and slander$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 606 $aSex$zRome 606 $aLibel and slander$zRome 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aLibel and slander$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory. 615 0$aSex 615 0$aLibel and slander 676 $a241/.66 700 $aKnust$b Jennifer Wright$f1966-$01034909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452158203321 996 $aAbandoned to lust$92454314 997 $aUNINA