1. Sexual Ethics - Early Church's views of sex
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 24-05-17 10:46
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- Early church and sexual ethics
- Patriarchal
- Male dominated, church established in this view
- Original sin
- Act of sex
- Old Testament
- Torah for Jews
- Kosher Sex
- Fire + water - balance between passion and intimacy
- Augustine
- Encouraged negative view of sex
- "To have sex with your wife for pleasure was to use her as a whore"
- "Man should descend to the task with regret"
- An Exegesis of Genesis
- Different Judaic sources
- Orthodox
- Reform
- Messianic
- Hasidic
- Genesis 1 - priestly account (youngest)
- Verse 26
- "now we will make human beings...let us make an in our image, let us create human beings"
- Jesus + Holy Spirit present - God and Trinity present
- "now we will make human beings...let us make an in our image, let us create human beings"
- Humankind - Earth creature
- How: God's image, Male and Female created in one act (suggests they are equal)
- Exnihilo = out of nothing
- Verse 26
- Genesis 2 - Oldest acount
- Lord God - Yahwist - Jewish tradition - God is Yahweh (Majesty)
- Man, male, is formed from dust
- Female formed out of rib of Adam - 'IS' = taken from Issiech
- Companion/helper
- Subservient
- Differences between Genesis 1 and 2
- In Gen 2, men came first but in Gen 1, men and women were created at the same time
- Women are just a companion in Gen 2
- Gen 2, Adam is made in image of God, whereas in Gen 1 both men and women are made in image of God
- How have these differences been interpreted by early Church to influence their view of sex?
- Church seemed to favour Gen 2 view - maintain patriarchal society
- According to Gen 2, seems women is regarded merely as a companion in sex
- Why is Sex such an important issue for early church?
- Power
- Allows them to maintain patriarchal society
- Different Judaic sources
- Patriarchal
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