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Author:   Stephen Morris
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780786495177

ISBN 10:   0786495170
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   14 January 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “Receive Not Any Boys, Beardless Youths, and Eunuchs”: Monastic Experience and the Beautiful Boys 2. The “Gay” Male as Byzantine Monster: Civil/Secular Legislation and Punishment for ­Same-Sex Behavior 3. “Better Than Free Fornication”: Suspicious Sexual Relationships in Canon Law and Penitential Handbooks 4. “Their Teaching Satanic … Their Life Also Diabolical”: John Chrysostom on ­Same-Sex Behavior 5. “Look Down from Heaven, Behold and Visit This Vine”: Liturgy and Anthropology of Adelphopoiia Conclusions and Reflections Appendix I. John Chrysostom’s Homily 4 on Romans Appendix II. Service to Bless a Second/Third Marriage Appendix III. Service for Adelphopoiia Appendix IV. Goar’s ­Canonico-Historical Notes on Adelphopoiia Chapter Notes Bibliography Index

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an exceptionally well-written, organized and presented theological treatise for both academic and non-specialist general readers with an interest in Christian theology, with respect to the LGBT community...very highly recommended --Midwest Book Review; the author is to be commended for a gripping, if chilling, read...sobering --The Journal of Theological Studies; brave and intelligent --Journal of Ecclesiastical History; I found the book refreshing and courageous. It puts the status of homosexuality within the Byzantine tradition carefully in context. A sound piece of historical writing. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. Morris engages the topic with objectivity, courage and grace. Fearless in dealing with sensitive subjects, its pastoral conclusions are insightful and helpful for discussion of the subject within all Christian churches, not just Orthodox Christianity. --Wendy Mayer, Australian Catholic University; Advocacy, autobiography, and scholarship combine in this a fascinating study of homoeroticism in the Byzantine and Orthodox worlds. Morris also sheds welcome further light on the adelphopoiesis or brother-making same-sex unions in premodern Europe. --Mathew Kuefler, author of The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity; Original and significant...[Morris argues] that the Orthodox Church can recognize the adelphopoiesis rite known from Byzantine times as a recognition of same-sex civil marriage and supports [his] argument convincingly throughout the book by drawing on the parallel of ecclesiastical recognition for second and third marriages, with historical antecedents that reach back to the 9th century. --Claudia Rapp, Professor of Byzantine Studies (University of Vienna), author of Brother-Making in Late Antiquity: Monks, Laymen and Christian Ritual

an exceptionally well-written, organized and presented theological treatise for both academic and non-specialist general readers with an interest in Christian theology, with respect to the LGBT community...very highly recommended --<i>Midwest Book Review</i>; I found the book refreshing and courageous. It puts the status of homosexuality within the Byzantine tradition carefully in context. A sound piece of historical writing. Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. Morris engages the topic with objectivity, courage and grace. Fearless in dealing with sensitive subjects, its pastoral conclusions are insightful and helpful for discussion of the subject within all Christian churches, not just Orthodox Christianity. --Wendy Mayer, Australian Catholic University; Advocacy, autobiography, and scholarship combine in this a fascinating study of homoeroticism in the Byzantine and Orthodox worlds. Morris also sheds welcome further light on the <i>adelphopoiesis</i> or brother-making same-sex unions in premodern Europe. --Mathew Kuefler, author of <i>The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity</i>; Original and significant...[Morris argues] that the Orthodox Church can recognize the adelphopoiesis rite known from Byzantine times as a recognition of same-sex civil marriage and supports [his] argument convincingly throughout the book by drawing on the parallel of ecclesiastical recognition for second and third marriages, with historical antecedents that reach back to the 9th century. --Claudia Rapp, Professor of Byzantine Studies (University of Vienna), author of <i>Brother-Making in Late Antiquity: Monks, Laymen and Christian Ritual</i>

Author Information

Stephen Morris is an independent scholar who lives in New York City. He has studied Byzantine and medieval history and theology at Yale and St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Academy and has written on patristic preaching and exegesis as well as medieval and Byzantine hagiography.

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