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Author : Rebecca Langlands
Release : 2006-05-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 433/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome by : Rebecca Langlands
Download or read book Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome written by Rebecca Langlands. This book was released on 2006-05-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2006 study of Roman sexuality and sexual ethics focusing on the crucial and unsettled concept of pudicitia.
Author : Kyle Harper
Release : 2013-06-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 564/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis From Shame to Sin by : Kyle Harper
Download or read book From Shame to Sin written by Kyle Harper. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.
Author : Matthew Rueger
Release : 2016
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sexual Morality in a Christless World by : Matthew Rueger
Download or read book Sexual Morality in a Christless World written by Matthew Rueger. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like in St. Paul's day, the Church around the world-and particularly in the United States-now frequently faces hostility at the first mention of homosexuality in casual conversations or public-square debates. Author Matthew Rueger openly embraces this hot topic, giving you a framework for defending your beliefs by first exploring the relationship between sexual sin in ancient history and twenty-first-century tangles of the same flavor. Topics such as temptation, promiscuity, marriage, homosexuality, natural law, and the church's role in it all then swirl together to reveal our unifying need for a Savior. Rueger writes compassionately with a father's heart and adamantly with a determination to outline the truth about sexual morality from a reasoned Christian perspective. We need to expect the unpleasant from our opponents, arm ourselves with answers to common objections, and speak in clarity and love. And let's not lose sight of the church as a place of refuge for those who are battered down by their desires. Real people with real struggles are being lost. Find Your Voice. Book jacket.
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Release : 2013-08-02
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sleep of Reason by : Martha C. Nussbaum
Download or read book The Sleep of Reason written by Martha C. Nussbaum. This book was released on 2013-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experience and sexual ethics. The Sleep of Reason brings together an international group of philosophers, philologists, literary critics, and historians to consider two questions normally kept separate: how is erotic experience understood in classical texts of various kinds, and what ethical judgments and philosophical arguments are made about sex? From same-sex desire to conjugal love, and from Plato and Aristotle to the Roman Stoic Musonius Rufus, the contributors demonstrate the complexity and diversity of classical sexuality. They also show that the ethics of eros, in both Greece and Rome, shared a number of commonalities: a focus not only on self-mastery, but also on reciprocity; a concern among men not just for penetration and display of their power, but also for being gentle and kind, and for being loved for themselves; and that women and even younger men felt not only gratitude and acceptance, but also joy and sexual desire. Contributors: * Eva Cantarella * Kenneth Dover * Chris Faraone * Simon Goldhill * Stephen Halliwell * David M. Halperin * J. Samuel Houser * Maarit Kaimio * David Konstan * David Leitao * Martha C. Nussbaum * A. W. Price * Juha Sihvola
Author : Rebecca Langlands
Release : 2018-09-13
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 604/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome by : Rebecca Langlands
Download or read book Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome written by Rebecca Langlands. This book was released on 2018-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears are opened to the voices of the past and of other worlds. Roman exempla, which constitute a national story-telling tradition, are very different in many ways from the dream-like fantasies of fairy-tales and other narrative folk traditions that have been the subject of Warner's studies. In (supposedly) true stories from history, battle-hardened warriors, noble maidens and honourable sons of the soil face impossible dangers, take terrible decisions and sacrifice their lives, their limbs and even their own children for the sake of justice, discipline and the Roman community. Yet for the ancient Romans too, hearing the blood-soaked stories of their ancestral heroes was an intimate and potent experience, and this 'taste of the hero's blood' had an intoxicating effect similar to the blood of Warner's dragon: evoking other worlds, shaping understanding of their own world"--
