Civilizing Sex : On Chastity and the Common Good.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections .
- Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: A Primer of Political Philosophy -- The Scope of this Book -- Method and Terms -- The Common Good -- The Family and the Common Good of Civil Society -- The State and the Common Good -- Part I: The Foundation -- CHAPTER 1 ISRAEL, YAHWEH, AND COVENANTAL CHASTITY -- The Basic Provisions of the Covenant -- The Manifold Functions of the Decalogue -- CHAPTER 2 THE LAW -- Pagan Worship, Sexual License, and Child Sacrifice -- The More Detailed Commandments -- The Jewish Family -- Part II: The Structure -- CHAPTER 3 ISRAEL: CHASTITY IN DEFENSE OF THE NATION -- Hellenization and Homosexuality -- Collaborators and Resistance -- Martyrdom and Dogma -- The Temple Desecrated -- CHAPTER 4 THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CHASTITY IN DEFENSE OF THE BODY POLITIC -- The Pagan Ethos -- The Pagan Reform -- The Christian Ethos -- The Christian Reform -- CHAPTER 5 THE MIDDLE AGES: CHASTITY IN DEFENSE OF THE BODY -- Rebirth of a Second God -- The Cathar Mystery -- Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Poetry -- Reflections -- Bibliography -- Philosophical Foundations -- On the Old Testament, and on the Jewish Family -- On the Society of Classical and Christian Antiquity -- On Dualism and the Cathars -- Index of Names.