Abortion and the Early Church

Christian, Jewish and Pagan Attitudes in the Greco-Roman World

• Author(s): Michael J. Gorman,
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Pages: 120
• ISBN_10: 1579101828
  ISBN_13: 9781579101824
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christian Church / History , Religion / Christian Theology / History , Religion / Christianity / History ,

Description:... 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.