The disgust felt by early Christians for the flesh was a radical departure from both pagan and Jewish sexual attitudes....
(04/16/08) The disgust felt by early Christians for the flesh was a radical departure from both pagan and Jewish sexual attitudes. In fact, as Princeton professor Pagels (The Gnostic Gospels) demonstrates, the ascetic movement in Christianity met with great resistance in the first four centuries A.D. Sex became fully tainted, inextricably linked to sin under the teachings of Augustine. This troubled sinner invoked Adam and Eve to justify his idiosyncratic view of humanity as permanently scarred by the Fall. Instead of being dismissed as marginal, Augustine's grim outlook took hold, according to Pagels, because it was politically expedient. Now that Christianity had become the imperial religion, Rome wanted its imperfect subjects to obey a strong Christian state. This highly provocative history links the religious roots of Western sexual attitudes to women's inferior status through the centuries. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable...See less
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by Paula Fredriksen (Author) "Sometime around the year 30 C.E., Jesus, a Nazarene peasant and charismatic religious...
(04/16/08) by Paula Fredriksen (Author) "Sometime around the year 30 C.E., Jesus, a Nazarene peasant and charismatic religious leader, was executed in Jerusalem as a political agitator by the Roman..." (more) Key Phrases: restoration theology, passion predictions, religious offense, New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth, John the Baptist (more...)See less
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by James M. Robinson (Author) "The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of religious texts that vary widely from each...
(04/16/08) by James M. Robinson (Author) "The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of religious texts that vary widely from each other as to when, where, and by whom they were..." (more) Key Phrases: prime parent, whole pleroma, chief archon, Jesus Christ, Nag Hammadi, New Testament (more...)See less
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