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Augustine on Marriage and Virginity :Augustine on Marriage and Virginity NT on marriage.
Ascetic tendencies in early Christianity.
-- Sexual abstinence in the NT
-- later church tradition
Augustine: life and work.
Augustine, The Good of Marriage & Holy Virginity.
Marriage in the NT :Marriage in the NT Mk 10: 2-11 no divorce
Mt 19: 3-9 no divorce, except for unchastity
1 Cor 7: 12-16 unbelieving partner may separate
Eph 5: 22-33 subordination of wives to husbands; mutual love (cf. Col 3: 18-19)
Sexual abstinence in the NT :Sexual abstinence in the NT Virginity of Christ & Mary
‘Eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven’ Mt 19: 12.
Paul: ‘It is well for a man not to touch a woman.’ 1 Cor 7: 1.
Sexual renunciation in early Christianity :Sexual renunciation in early Christianity Propaganda of sexual abstinence in marriage in some apocryphal writings
Manicheans & some Gnostics: sexuality and reproduction are evil
Monasticism
Views of Jerome and Jovinian
Augustine timeline :Augustine timeline 354 Born in Thagaste
371 Begins his studies at Carthage
374 Becomes involved with Manicheans
384 Prof. of rhetoric in Milan
387 Baptism after long conversion
395 Ordained bishop of Hippo
413 Begins writing The City of God
418 Becomes involved in Pelagian controversy
430 Dies in Hippo Regius
Marriage :Marriage Covenant
Sacrament of love
Goals:
self-giving love
Procreation
Heterosexual & monogamous union