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Dirt Greed & Sex
This new revised edition, of the landmark 1988 text, includes updated text and notes throughout, taking advantage of recent studies of sexual ethics and, where appropriate, criticizing them. A new chapter engages the presumed "ethic of creation7#34; that has become a major theme among more conservative thinkers and writers in biblical ethics. A concluding chapter on sex is...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
January 1st 1988
by Augsburg Fortress Publishing
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This book changed my life in every way.
This cannot be an actual review, because I read this book 14 years ago. I am adding it to my pile to re-read, and perhaps after I do, I will be able to provide a thoughtful review.
What I can say without re-reading it, though, is that this book completely upended my belief system, and as a result, my life, by leading me to reexamine through a historical lens everything I had been raised to believe about religion, God, Christianity, men, and women. Ultimate...more
This cannot be an actual review, because I read this book 14 years ago. I am adding it to my pile to re-read, and perhaps after I do, I will be able to provide a thoughtful review.
What I can say without re-reading it, though, is that this book completely upended my belief system, and as a result, my life, by leading me to reexamine through a historical lens everything I had been raised to believe about religion, God, Christianity, men, and women. Ultimate...more
Excellent book for those with an interest in Leviticus and modern sexual ethics (and who doesn't have an interest in that, right?). Countryman does a great job of examining the purity code and the ethic of sexual property in the context of Old Testament sexual ethics. He then looks at how the New Testament approaches these core ethics (and in some cases, upends them) and what that means for modern Christians, who live in a vastly different culture. This book is well-documented but doesn't read l...more
Lots of dirt and greed, not so much sex. Kind of a let down in that respect. Although the author does assert that we can't rule out bestiality on a scriptural basis. ;)
Discusses the ideas of purity and property in the New Testament in the context of the cultural understandings of the time, which are often quite different from what the ideas appear to mean in the context of our own culture today. I found his discussion of the laws in Leviticus particularly eye-opening.
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