Mark D. Jordan: Telling Truths in Church

USA 2003, 121 pp., cloth, € 22.49
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The ongoing crisis in the Catholic church has revealed certain truths: truths in the memories of abused children and adolescents, and truths about the church's response - or lack of response - to evidence about the behavior of some of its priests. But Mark Jordan - the author of »The Silence of Sodom« - argues that for true reform to ... Weiterlesen

Mark D. Jordan: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology

UK 1997, 200 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Oxford University Press
This text explores the invention of sodomy in medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. It traces the historical genealogy of this enduring cultural construct through many of the idiosyncratic worldviews of the Middle Ages - worldviews at war with themselves in their attitudes toward sex, love ... Weiterlesen