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Title: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History and Society) by Mark D. Jordan ISBN: 0-226-41040-4 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing man wrote this book
Comment: I had the pleasure of being taught by Mark Jordan my senior year of college at Emory University. I'm not a particularly emotional person when I'm not supposed to be, but one of the lectures he gave in class about this very topic made me teary. I would say that any piece of academic work that you can get your hands on by Dr. Jordan is a must-have.
Rating: 5
Summary: Intriguing and concise account of theology of "sodomy"
Comment: at the start of the second millennium of Christianity.
Looking at the preceding "review" that ignores the subject of the book (what Christian theologians of roughly a millennium ago wrote about "sodomy") and seems to have been written by someone who did not read the book but substituted his own condemnations of homosexuality, I was astounded to read that Romans 1 is clear. The "reviewer" also must not have read that, because the syntax (in the original, which the reviewer probably does not know was not English) is VERY convoluted.
There are no condemnations of "sodomy" (by any name) in the Gospels that allegedly report the words of the Christ, and Mark Jordan's book does not deal with the Hebrew background or the first millennium of Christianity.
(An earlier reviewer must not have seen the blurb FROM Michel Foucault for John Boswell's book, one that is considerably less sound than Jordan's.)
Rating: 1
Summary: revisionist dissembling
Comment: Only a "scholar" could ignore the plain text of Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1:26-32, and similar pre-Christian and early Christian proscriptions of homosexual sex, then divert into the etymology of the term "sodomy" to pretend that the sinfulness of homosexual behavior is some recent fabrication of a "homophobic" cabal in the Church. As early as the Council of Ancyra (314 A.D.) the Church spoke juridically against those "who.. commit [acts of] defilement with animals or males." Certainly that the Church spoke in different terms, even in circumlocutions, to avoid describing acts so foul against Christian morality provides no "cover" for the sin. Whether "sodomy," "defilement," or "liers with mankind," Christians have always taught that homosexual behavior is intrinsically disordered and sinful --- at least until revisionist "scholars" sought to muddy the water with fabrications.
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Title: The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism by Mark D. Jordan ISBN: 0226410439 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech by Mark D. Jordan ISBN: 0807010545 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton ISBN: 067401197X Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell ISBN: 0226067114 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1981 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective by Martti Nissinen ISBN: 080062985X Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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