Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity
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Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy(Oxford Early Christian Studies)

Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy(Oxford Early Christian Studies)


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Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity is the first major study in English of the 'heretic' Jovinian and the Jovinianist controversy. David G. Hunter examines early Christian views on marriage and celibacy in the first three centuries and the development of an anti-heretical tradition. He provides a thorough analysis of the responses of Jovinian's main opponents, including Pope Siricius, Ambrose, Jerome, Pelagius, and Augustine. In the course of his discussion Hunter sheds new light on the origins of Christian asceticism, the rise of clerical celibacy, the development of Marian doctrine, and the formation of 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy' in early Christianity.

Table of Contents:
I. Jovinian and his world 1: Reconstructing Jovinian 2: Jovinian and Christian Rome II. Jovinian, heresy, and asceticism 3: Asceticism, heresy, and early Christian tradition 4: Jovinian, Heresy, and fourth-century asceticism 5: Mary ever virgin? Jovinian and Marian heresy III. Jovinian and his opponents 6: Against Jovinian: From Siricius to Jerome 7: After Jovinian: Marriage and celibacy in Western theology Conclusion

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It is important work that merits attention since its main trajectory is theological and contextual... The study id therefore a welcome addition to the study of sexuality and asceticism in late antiquity. Hunter's excellent book will doubtless remain a standard work for years to come; although the topic is specialized, Hunter's fine style makes the book accessible to a wider audience than scholars of late ancient Christianity. In the end it is impossible not to be convinced by Hunter's central contention, that Jovinian is to be understood not as a 'laxist' advocate of unrestrained immortality but as a sincere and serious thinker. These same questions would be asked and answered again, from Pelagius to Martin Luther and beyond; and Hunter is right to restore them to a central place in the history of Christian ideas. A wonderful example of what the best scholarship in late antique Christianity ought to look like. Hunter's work is impressive... it takes on some of the most contentious doctrinal issues from the early Christian period and clearly shows a church in formative mode.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780199565535
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 519 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199565538
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2009
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 338
  • Series Title: Oxford Early Christian Studies
  • Sub Title: The Jovinianist Controversy
  • Width: 156 mm


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