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Abortion & the Early Church: Christian, Jewish & Pagan Attitudes in the Greco-Roman World is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is abortion? A convenience to society? A legal offense? Murder? We are not the first to face these questions. Abortion was a common practice 2,000 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? Michael J. Gorman examines Christian documents in their Greco-Roman context,...

interest in legal fine points but is concerned only with the fundamental immorality of abortion. In summary, the Alexandrian Jewish position viewed abortion as immoral and punishable. In ethical contexts it stressed the immorality of abortion without concerning itself with legal and technical questions about the fetus, while in more legal contexts it discussed the nature of the act and its appropriate penalty. However, even in legal contexts the Alexandrian school, as represented by Philo, was more
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