Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity
Subtitle: The Jovinianist Controversy (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 5, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780199279784
First sentence: 'Our religion has invented a new dogma against nature', wrote the monk Jovinian, thus characterizing the exaltation of celibacy and asceticism in the late fourth-century church.