LEADER 04999nam 22007574a 450 001 9910455363203321 005 20211022220609.0 010 $a9786612356988 010 $a0-520-92946-2 010 $a1-282-35698-4 010 $a978058545633X 010 $a1-59734-728-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520929463 035 $a(CKB)111087027179690 035 $a(EBL)223852 035 $a(OCoLC)475929058 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000195963 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11182123 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195963 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10129904 035 $a(PQKB)10659118 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055840 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223852 035 $a(OCoLC)52471083 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30927 035 $a(DE-B1597)520843 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520929463 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223852 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048759 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235698 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027179690 100 $a20020807d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe making of fornication$b[electronic resource] $eeros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity /$fKathy L. Gaca 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (380 p.) 225 1 $aHellenistic culture and society ;$v40 225 1 $aThe Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-29617-6 311 0 $a0-520-23599-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-335) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tChapter 1. Introduction: Ancient Greek Sexual Blueprints for Social Order --$tPart One. Greek Philosophical Sexual Reforms --$tPart Two. Greek Biblical Sexual Rules and Their Reworking by Paul and Philo --$tPart Three. Patristic Transformations of the Philosophical, Pauline, and Philonic Rules --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory-with their proposed reforms of eroticism, the family, and civic order-as the foundation of Christian sexual austerity. Rather, in this thoroughly informed and wide-ranging study, Gaca shows that early Christian goals to eradicate fornication were derived from the sexual rules and poetic norms of the Septuagint, or Greek Bible, and that early Christian writers adapted these rules and norms in ways that reveal fascinating insights into the distinctive and largely non-philosophical character of Christian sexual morality. Writing with an authoritative command of both Greek philosophy and early Christian writings, Gaca investigates Plato, the Stoics, the Pythagoreans, Philo of Alexandria, the apostle Paul, and the patristic Christians Clement of Alexandria, Tatian, and Epiphanes, freshly elucidating their ideas on sexual reform with precision, depth, and originality. Early Christian writers, she demonstrates, transformed all that they borrowed from Greek ethics and political philosophy to launch innovative programs against fornication that were inimical to Greek cultural mores, popular and philosophical alike. The Septuagint's mandate to worship the Lord alone among all gods led to a Christian program to revolutionize Gentile sexual practices, only for early Christians to find this virtually impossible to carry out without going to extremes of sexual renunciation. Knowledgeable and wide-ranging, this work of intellectual history and ethics cogently demonstrates why early Christian sexual restrictions took such repressive ascetic forms, and casts sobering light on what Christian sexual morality has meant for religious pluralism in Western culture, especially among women as its bearers. 410 0$aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 410 0$aHellenistic culture and society ;$v40. 606 $aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aPhilosophy, Ancient$xInfluence 606 $aSexual ethics$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Ancient$xInfluence. 615 0$aSexual ethics$xHistory. 676 $a241/.66/09015 700 $aGaca$b Kathy L$0486362 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455363203321 996 $aThe making of fornication$92462854 997 $aUNINA