姦通の誕生：ギリシア哲学と初期キリスト教における官能、倫理、政治改革<br>The Making of Fornication : Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

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姦通の誕生：ギリシア哲学と初期キリスト教における官能、倫理、政治改革
The Making of Fornication : Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 384 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780520235991
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基本説明

Provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity.

Full Description

This 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.

Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Ancient Greek Sexual Blueprints for Social Order Part I. Greek Philosophical Sexual Reforms 2. Desire's Hunger and Plato the Regulator 3. Crafting Eros through the Stoic Logos of Nature 4. The Reproductive Technology of the Pythagoreans Part II. Greek Biblical Sexual Rules and Their Reworking by Paul and Philo 5. Rival Plans for God's Sexual Program in the Pentateuch and Paul 6. From the Prophets to Paul: Converting Whore Culture into the Lord's Veiled Bride 7. Philo's Reproductive City of God Part III. Patristic Transformations of the Philosophical, Pauline, and Philonic Rules 8. Driving Aphrodite from the World: Tatian and His Encratite Argument 9. Prophylactic Grace in Clement's Emergent Church Sexual Ethic 10. The Fornicating Justice of Epiphanes 11. Conclusion: The Demise of Greek Eros and Reproduction Bibliography Index