From Shame to Sin Quotes

“Wine, like sex, was an immanent divine force, and the wash of its warm ecstasy was experienced as a communion with Dionysus. It is hard for us to appreciate the invisible but ubiquitous effects of wine in the Roman Empire.”
― Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

“The chill severity of Christian sexuality was born not out of a pathological hatred of the body, nor out of a broad public anxiety about the material world. It emerged in an existentially serious culture, propelled to startling conclusions by the remorseless logic of a new moral cosmology.”
― Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity