Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth CenturyUniversity of Chicago Press, 10 dec 2015 - 440 pagina's “What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture’s most familiar moral assumptions.” —Newsweek John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published thirty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell’s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. Jordan, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. “Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition.” —Michel Foucault “Revolutionary. . . .sets a standard of excellence that one would have thought impossible in the treatment of an issue so large, uncharted and vexed. . . . Improbably as it might seem, this work of unrelenting scholarship and high intellectual drama is also thoroughly entertaining.” —New York Times Book Review “One day, when all churches accept the presence and achievements of gay people with approbation instead of denial or disapproval, Boswell will in no small way be responsible.” —Gay & Lesbian Review |
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Pagina 10
... simply a common personal ambition), there would be no reason for gay people not to reproduce.” With the exception of the clergy, most of the gay people discussed in the present study were married and had children. The persistence of the ...
... simply a common personal ambition), there would be no reason for gay people not to reproduce.” With the exception of the clergy, most of the gay people discussed in the present study were married and had children. The persistence of the ...
Pagina 11
... simply artificial, like “unnatural” (or “nonnatural”) fibers, foodstuffs, etc." 3. Although “realistic” categories of “natural” and “unnatural” are used with. 14. The “laws of nature” under this schematization refer only to this sense ...
... simply artificial, like “unnatural” (or “nonnatural”) fibers, foodstuffs, etc." 3. Although “realistic” categories of “natural” and “unnatural” are used with. 14. The “laws of nature” under this schematization refer only to this sense ...
Pagina 13
... simply the nonhuman, it is always believed to operate to the “good.” Some “natural” things may be sad or distressing, may even give the appearance of evil, but all can be shown to result in something which is desirable or worthwhile in ...
... simply the nonhuman, it is always believed to operate to the “good.” Some “natural” things may be sad or distressing, may even give the appearance of evil, but all can be shown to result in something which is desirable or worthwhile in ...
Pagina 14
... simply be part of a general change in his thinking, but his comment should in any case be interpreted as accurately as possible. Probably all he meant by “trapá obviouv'' was “unrelated to birth” or “nonprocreative,” not “unnatural” in ...
... simply be part of a general change in his thinking, but his comment should in any case be interpreted as accurately as possible. Probably all he meant by “trapá obviouv'' was “unrelated to birth” or “nonprocreative,” not “unnatural” in ...
Pagina 20
... the freedman: the most likely interpretation would be that it was simply brought up as a “reproach” during the course of a trial on other charges. 39. For the law and interpolation, see E. Neufeld, The 2O Chapter One.
... the freedman: the most likely interpretation would be that it was simply brought up as a “reproach” during the course of a trial on other charges. 39. For the law and interpolation, see E. Neufeld, The 2O Chapter One.
Inhoudsopgave
II The Christian Tradition | 89 |
III Shifting Fortunes | 167 |
IV The Rise of Intolerance | 267 |
Lexicography and Saint Paul | 335 |
Texts and Translations | 355 |
Frequently Cited Works | 403 |
Index of Greek Terms | 411 |
General Index | 413 |
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