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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,...

So far we have described reasons for and means of abortion in antiquity and have outlined pagan and Jewish opinion and practice. It was within this historical situation that Christianity arose and had to face the theological, ethical and very human issue of abortion. Writers of the first three Christian centuries laid the theological and literary foundation for all subsequent early Christian writing on abortion. We will see that three important themes
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