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"Against Nature": Romans 1 and Same-Sex Relations

What did "against nature" (para physin) mean in first-century Stoic and Jewish thought, and is Paul describing all same-sex attraction as a result of idolatry or specific Greco-Roman practices?

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"Against Nature": Romans 1 and Same-Sex Relations

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