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Article: Abortion and the early church: Christian, Jewish and pagan attitudes in the Graeco-Roman world.
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- National Review
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- November 16, 1984
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Abortion and the Early Church: Christian, Jewish, and Pagan Attitudes in the Graeco-Roman World
THROUGHOUT the history of Christianity, particularly in times of turmoil, men of faith have turned, not only to the Bible, but to the life and thought of the early Christians. Without the trappings of ceremony or tradition, the unadorned, pristine Christianity of the first centuries has often provided later generations with answers for the problems of their own times. Now, as the Western world faces one of its greatest challenges--the massacre of innocents through abortion and infanticide --Michael Gorman offers a small but powerful book on the response of early ...