Church Fathers, Independent Virgins
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This startling study of early Christian attitudes toward sexuality begins with an account of the different stances adopted by the Church--from the Early Fathers view that sex and the female body were irredeemably unholy, to Augustines contention that sex was natural, but lust was evil. While the Church Fathers struggled to reach consistent theoretical conclusions, the underlying conflation of women with sex meant that patristic statements on chastity,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0860912930
ISBN13:9780860912934
Release Date:March 1991
Publisher:Verso
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
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