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Sex and Salvation - Virginity As A Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity (Paperback, New)
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Sex and Salvation - Virginity As A Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity (Paperback, New)
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Sex and Salvation explores the growth and development of virginity
in the cultural contexts of the ancient church. An examination of
Greek, Roman, and Jewish literature, which speaks to the issues of
virginity, reveals that the Christian understanding of life-long
virginity was a foreign concept to the peoples and cultures of the
ancient Mediterranean world. In a time when families and
authorities demanded that women follow the ancient tradition of
marriage and motherhood, a growing number of important Christian
authors were calling for a life free from the "dangerous" sexual
passions that beset all women. In Sex and Salvation, author Roger
Steven Evans gathers over thirty documents from early Catholic,
pseudopigraphical and heterodox letters, epistles, apologies, and
canon law that trace the importance of virginity in early
Christianity. Evans contends that the sexual ethic established by
early Christian authors has reverberated throughout the intervening
centuries, and is still being felt in the post modern world of the
21st century.
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