The Making of Fornication by Kathy L. Gaca PAPERBACK 9780520296176

The Making of Fornication\nby Kathy L. Gaca\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kathy L. Gaca\nTitle: The Making of Fornication\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Christianity\nPublisher: University of California Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9780520296176\nISBN-10: 0520296176\nRRP: \u00A330.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek ethics and political philosophy, Kathy L. Gaca demonstrates on compelling new grounds that it is misguided to regard Greek ethics and political theory--w.