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 xix
... moral—regarding homosexuality” (xxiii). Boswell makes a point of leaving to others any application of his work to current church debates about sex. He presents CSTH as a contribution to the social history of intolerance, not of religion ...
... moral—regarding homosexuality” (xxiii). Boswell makes a point of leaving to others any application of his work to current church debates about sex. He presents CSTH as a contribution to the social history of intolerance, not of religion ...
Pagina 7
... moral code, or if prohibitions which restrain a disliked minority are upheld in their most literal sense as absolutely inviolable while comparable precepts affecting the majority are relaxed or reinterpreted, one must suspect something ...
... moral code, or if prohibitions which restrain a disliked minority are upheld in their most literal sense as absolutely inviolable while comparable precepts affecting the majority are relaxed or reinterpreted, one must suspect something ...
Pagina 11
... moral concept (2), as discussed below. 15. No philosophical systems make cogent distinctions among “nonnatural,” “supernatural,” and “unnatural.” These words appear to be used chiefly in response to emotional nuances: “supernatural ...
... moral concept (2), as discussed below. 15. No philosophical systems make cogent distinctions among “nonnatural,” “supernatural,” and “unnatural.” These words appear to be used chiefly in response to emotional nuances: “supernatural ...
Pagina 14
... moral or physical law. “Physis” was probably originally derived from “disco,” “to grow” or “to be born,” and Plato himself had distinguished in an earlier work (Republic 381A) between the “man-made” (“réxvi)”) and the “natural” (“bisoev ...
... moral or physical law. “Physis” was probably originally derived from “disco,” “to grow” or “to be born,” and Plato himself had distinguished in an earlier work (Republic 381A) between the “man-made” (“réxvi)”) and the “natural” (“bisoev ...
Pagina 15
... moral considerations which underlay this approach have since been almost wholly discredited and are consciously ... morality, the persistence of the concept of “unnatural” in this context, when it has been abandoned in nearly all others ...
... moral considerations which underlay this approach have since been almost wholly discredited and are consciously ... morality, the persistence of the concept of “unnatural” in this context, when it has been abandoned in nearly all others ...
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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