John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members - among them priests, bishops, and even saints - when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality", still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
- ISBN10 0226067114
- ISBN13 9780226067117
- Publish Date 1 November 2005 (first published 31 December 1980)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 442
- Language English