On Virginity
Author : Johannes (Chrysostomus)
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1983
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ISBN : 9780889465497
Author : Johannes (Chrysostomus)
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9780889465497
Author : Saint John Chrysostom
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This is an English translation of these treatises. The work is also introduced by Elizabeth Clark, who sets forth the context of the treatises and makes an extended comparison between John's teaching and that of Paul in 1 Corinthians.
Author : Joannes (Chrysostomus)
Publisher :
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1983
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ISBN : 9780889465497
Author : St. Gregory of Nyssa
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
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Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1134737556
This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.
Author : Mark Glaab
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1525522078
Tough questions about divorce and remarriage have plagued the church for the last 75 years, questions that only seem to deepen with time. Can a divorced new convert ever remarry to have a Christian family? Must a Christian wife stay married to a murderer or a man who deserted his family? When can a Christian remarry? In this book, the author probes these questions and more with a comprehensive look at the scriptures on divorce and remarriage. By probing deeply into Paul’s Epistles some clear answers have been found for the most pressing questions about divorce and remarriage. This is a no-holds-barred book, written for believers everywhere. For any Christian facing divorce and weighing the scriptures, this book is a must read. For every Minister seeking how to honor Christ’s command on remarriage, yet extend mercy to those who deserve it, this book may have just the answers you are looking for. Entire denominations have been in turmoil as they struggle for answers to questions. The struggle is over.
Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : Verso
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 1992-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780860915966
This startling study of early Christian attitudes toward sexuality begins with an account of the different stances adopted by the Church—from the Early Fathers’ view that sex and the female body were irredeemably unholy, to Augustine’s contention that sex was natural, but lust was evil. While the Church Fathers struggled to reach consistent theoretical conclusions, the underlying conflation of ‘women’ with ‘sex’ meant that patristic statements on chastity, virginity and marriage effectively read as ecclesiastical law governing women’s conduct. Joyce Salisbury explains the relationship between Church doctrine and the position of women by placing these official views alongside an ascetic tradition which resisted the constraints imposed by sexual intercourse. Through an examination of texts of female and popular authorship, and the extraordinary lives of seven women saints—including the transvestites Castissima and Pelagia—she presents a markedly different picture of sexual and social roles. For many of these women, celibacy became a form of emancipation. Church Fathers, Independent Virgins bears witness to the entrenched power of the Church to oppress, the continuing power of women to overcome, and the enduring effects of medieval sexual attitudes.
Author : John L. Grigsby
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780917786747
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,98 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9042028793
The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the conference itself covering topics such as historical and theological concepts of evil, media representations of evil, contemporary debates surrounding the Bosnia war and woman perpetrators in Birkenau, and the construction of the Other as evil in the face of the continuing hysteria over AIDS. The range of the papers collected here makes this book essential reading for students of all humanities disciplines.
Author : John Witte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108415342
A comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.