ABSTRACT
John Boswell's magnum opus, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, I while loaded with the paraphernalia of scholarship (many footnotes, foreign language quotations, critical remarks on editions and translations of texts, sharp rebuttals of 'hitherto great scholars,' and hints at thousands of problems, which surpass the scope of the book-not his knowledge), is full of inexplicit presuppositions, mistakes, distortions, and tactical omissions. In spite of its philosophical tone, Towards the long view: Revolutions, Universals and Sexual Categories2 is no better.
