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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Censures of Homosexuality Prior to 1048 6 Early Reform Movements 11 Peter Damian 12 Book of Gomorrah 13 Concerns of the Book of Gomorrah 14 Damian's Arguments 15 Pastoral Concern 19 Was Homosexuality a Problem? 20 Conclusion 22 The Translation 22 Book of Gomorrah 25 Preface 27 I. The Different Types of Those Who Sin against Nature 29 II. ExcessivePiety on the Part of Superiors Fails to Exclude from Orders Those Who Fall in This Way 30 III. Those Given over to Unclean Acts Should Not Be Promoted to Orders, and Those Already Promoted Should Not Remain in Orders 32 IV. Whether Such Should Be Allowed to Function in This Office in the Event of Ecclesiastical Need 35 v vi Book of Gomorrah V. Those Who Desire To Have Sacred Orders after This Vice Have Fallen into a Depraved Sense 37 VI. Spiritual Fathers Who Are Defiled Along with Their Children 41 VII. Those Who Confess Their Crimes to the Very Ones with Whom They Fell 43 VIII. Just as the Sacrilegious Violator of a Virgin, so also the Prostitutor of a Spiritual Son Must Be Deposed by Law 45 IX. Those Who Sin with Either a Natural or Baptismal Daughter are Guilty of the Same Crime 47 X. The Apocryphal Canons in Which Those Who Trust Are Completely Deceived 49 XI. A Credible Refutation of the Aforesaid Canons 51 XII. These Mockeries Are To Be Excluded from the Sacred Canons Since They Do Not Seem To Have Certain Authorship 55 XIII. "Those Who Fornicate Irrationally, That Is, Who Mix with Cattle or Who Are Polluted with Males" 57 XIV. "Those Who Were Once Polluted with Animals or Males, or Who Still Languish in This Vice" 59 XV. Clerics or Monks Who are Seducers of Males 61 XVI. A Deserving Condemnation of Abominable Shamefulness 63 XVII. A Mournful Lament for the Soul Who Is Given Over to the Filth of Impurity 66 XVII. The Soul Ought To Be Mourned for Because It Does Not Mourn 69 XIX. The Service of an Unworthy Priest Is the Ruin of the People 72 XX. God Refuses To Accept the Sacrifice from the Hands of the Unclean 74 XXI. No Holy Offering Which Is Soiled with the Crimes of Impurity Is Received by God 76 XXII. All Four of the Modes Enumerated Above Are Against Nature 78 XXIII. An Exhortation To Arise to One Fallen into Sinwith Men 81 [44.222.142.210] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 11:50 GMT) Contents vii XXIV. To Conquer Lust It Is Enough To Contemplate the Rewards of Chastity 84 XXV. The Writer Credibly Excuses Himself 87 XXVI. The Work is Directed to the Lord Pope 91 Appendix 93 Letter of Pope Leo IX to Peter Damian 95 Bibliography 99 Biblical References 105 This page intentionally left blank ...