John Boswells National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Churchs. 'Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality', still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality - Google Books Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswells. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell, 9780226345222, available at Book Depository with free. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. John Boswells National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Churchs past relationship to its gay membersamong them priests, bishops, and even saintswhen it was first published twenty-five years ago. John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members - among them priests, bishops, and even saints - when it was first published twenty-five years ago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. 2: Texts and Translations Frequently Cited Works Index of Greek Terms General Index. Abstract Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century.

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9: The Triumph of Ganymede: Gay Literature of the High Middle Ages Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century John Boswell.

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