A New Song
Subtitle: Celibate Women in the First Three Christian Centuries
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Harrington Park Press
Published: June 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780918393173
Subjects: Women's studies; Sociology; History of doctrines; Early church, ca. 30-600; Social Science; Inspirational; Religious aspects; Christianity; Women's Studies - General; Asceticism; Celibacy; Feminism; History
First sentence: It is traditional to start the history of Christian asceticism with the flight of Saint Antony to the desert followed by the organization of monasteries in Egypt and Syria and a discussion of the great theoretical system constructed by Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine, and the other promoters of virginity from the fourth and fifth centuries.