The Making of Fornication - Eros, Ethics, & Political Reform in Greek Philosophy & Early Christianity : Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii ABBREVIATIONS xvii 1. Introduction: Ancient Greek Sexual Blueprints for Social Order 1(22) PART I. GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL SEXUAL REFORMS 2. Desire's Hunger and Plato the Regulator 23(36) 3. Crafting Eros through the Stoic Logos of Nature 59(35) 4. The Reproductive Technology of the Pythagoreans 94(85) PART II. GREEK BIBLICAL SEXUAL RULES AND THEIR REWORKING BY PAUL AND PHILO 5. Rival Plans for God's Sexual Program in the Pentateuch and Paul 179 6. From the Prophets to Paul: Converting Whore Culture into the Lord's Veiled Bride 160(30) 7. Philo's Reproductive City of God 190(31) PART III. PATRISTIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL, PAULINE, AND PHILONIC RULES 8. Driving Aphrodite from the World: Tatian and His Encratite Argument 221(26) 9. Prophylactic Grace in Clement's Emergent Church Sexual Ethic 247(26) 10. The Fornicating Justice of Epiphanes 273(19) Conclusion: The Demise of Greek Eros and Reproduction 292(15) BIBLIOGRAPHY 307(30) INDEX 337