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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Michael J. Gorman holds the Raymond E. Brown Chair in Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of numerous books on Paul and other topics in New Testament theology. This book is a thoroughly updated version of his previously unpublished Ph D dissertation.