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mouse

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John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Paperback, 2004) 4 stars

John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …

Appropriate gender behavior, for instance, was considered by many to be an essentially improper concern for Christians. ... The influential "Egyptian Gospel" emphasized again and again the necessity of terminating traditional patterns of sexuality, especially childbearing, and asserted that the Apocalypse would not occur until "the two [genders] become one, and man and woman are neither male nor female."

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by  (Page 158)

This was an interesting comparison to something I recall from Gender Reversals & Gender Cultures:

To the extent that generic human being is male, that is rational soul, every description of the Christian process of salvation is a form of gender crossing for women. To be saved in of a world of body, flesh, and sexuality to become an incorporeal, rational soul is to become symbolically male.

John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Paperback, 2004) 4 stars

John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …

When he is speaking to you or singing opposite you, look down as you respond to him, so that you do not by gazing at his face take the seed of desire from the enemy sower and bring forth the harvest of corruption and loss.

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by  (Page 160)

This is so weirdly tender and heartfelt for a lecture on how to be a good monk (from St. Basil's writing on monastic ideals in the late middle ages)

John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Paperback, 2004) 4 stars

John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …

Briefly put, the thesis of this trend in scholarship is that Lot was violating the custom of Sodom (where he was himself not a citizen but only a "sojourner") by entertaining unknown guests within the city walls at night without obtaining the permission of the elders of the city. When the men of Sodom gathered around to demand that the strangers be brought out to them, "that they might know them," they meant no more than to "know" who they were, and the city was consequently destroyed not for sexual immorality but for the sin of inhospitality to strangers.

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by  (Page 93 - 94)

replied to jordan's status

@j6m8 there weren't any big differences in how I felt reading it, although I'm a much more critical reader on a second time through (with any book) so I feel the negatives a bit more acutely. I do think I followed the details of the plot better, which was enjoyable

Ann Leckie: Ancillary Mercy (Paperback, 2015, Orbit) 4 stars

For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as …

I didn’t think this book was as strong as the start of the series; it got a little… whimsical? and some of the character dynamics didn’t make a ton of sense to me, but I still was very happy to revisit this