Abortion and the Early Church

by Michael J. Gorman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579101828
• ISBN13: 9781579101824
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.4"