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Abortion and the Early Church

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

Michael J. Gorman

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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.

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Christian Churches, Historical Theology, Abortion and the Early Church, History, History of religion, groups, Michael J. Gorman, denominations, Christian Theology, Christian Church, Christianity, Church History