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Abortion and the Early Church e-bog
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What is abortion? A convenience to society? A legal offense? Murder? The twentieth century is not the first to face these questions. Abortion was a common practice two thousand years ago. The young Christian church, growing up in influential centers of Greco-Roman culture, could not ignore the practice. How would church leaders define abortion?Gorman examines Christian documents in their Greco-...
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223,05 DKK
Forlag
Wipf and Stock
Udgivet
26 oktober 1998
Længde
120 sider
Genrer
History of religion
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781725206670
What is abortion? A convenience to society? A legal offense? Murder? The twentieth century is not the first to face these questions. Abortion was a common practice two thousand years ago. The young Christian church, growing up in influential centers of Greco-Roman culture, could not ignore the practice. How would church leaders define abortion?Gorman examines Christian documents in their Greco-Roman context, concluding that Christians held a consistent position throughout the church's first four hundred years.