Church Fathers "What appears to be the earliest Christian document outside the New Testament" needs clarification regarding the documentation is an invention of Sodomy within the Early Church.
"But to the unbelieving and despisers, who obey not the truth, but are obedient to unrighteousness, when they shall have been filled with adulteries and fornications, and filthiness, and covetousness, and unlawful idolatries, there shall be anger and wrath, tribulation and anguish, and at the last everlasting fire shall possess such men." [1]
Examining Dod's translation of “filthiness”, the Latin translation for this English word is, spurcitiae or, spurcitia and can be interpreted as, indulge oneself or, extravagence, thriving conditon, luxury. The last definition, luxury, then applies to the Latin word, luxuria, as talked about by Mark D. Jordan in his book, The Invention of Sodomy In Christian Theology. "There the wine of the Sodomites is, as it is in Deuteronomy, the source of the drunkeness of luxuria." "Indeed, he [Alan of Lille] singles out for particular reprobation gluttony, pride, and avarice." P. 89. [2]
The Sin of Sodom, Ezekiel 16: "49d Now look at the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were proud, sated with food, complacent in prosperity. They did not give any help to the poor and needy." [3] This is the only definition of the sin of Sodom in the Christian Bible. Alan of Lille parallels Ezekiel's definition of the Sin of Sodom. Note that there is no mention or reference in Ezekiel 16 in regards to homosexuality. The abomination Ezekiel mentions is the reprobation that Alan of Lille speaks to and the "filthiness" Dods uses speaks to this "reprobation."
“What a person loves, and how he or she loves it, will determine the course and character of life, as well as the condition of society.” [4] [5]
"The Latin word, luxuria as introduced by Gregory the Great in his Moral Readings of Job [Moralia in Job,written between 578 and 595] in which the seven capital sins centered around “pride: vainglory, envy, wrath, sadness, avarice, gluttony of the stomach, and luxuria. Gregory is referring to sexual sin, he lists luxuria last because he wishes to emphasize this word, addressing effeminacy and animality. The Invention of Sodomy In Christian Theology, Mark D. Jordan, p. 39. Gregory establishes genital luxuria as the “graver dysfunction.” This, then, for Jordan is a moral device for sexual sin to be the fundamental “notion of a disordered desire” (Augustine). Ibid., p. 40. [6] This seems to be the origin of which the meaning of Sodomy, as if it meant something to do with homosexuality as a sin, where the Church first condemns homosexuality as a sin relating it to the emphasis of the seven capital sins.
- ^ Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2, Theophilus to Autoycus, Book 1, Translated by the Rev. Marcus Dods, A.M., p. 93. ISBN for set: 978-1-56563-082-6.
- ^ ISBN: 0-226-41039-0.
- ^ http://www.usccb.org/bible/ezekiel/16
- ^ St. Augustine's Concept of Disordered Love and its Contemporary Application, David K. Naugle, Th.D., Ph.D., Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Theology and Philosophy of Religion Group, March 12, 1993, p. 12.
- ^ http://www3.dbu.edu/naugle/pdf/disordered_love.pdf
- ^ ISBN: 0-226-41039-0.
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