New Song Celibate Women in the First Three Christian Centuries
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: October 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780866562492
Subjects: Early Church; Women's studies; Single women; Early Church (To 476); Women And The Church; Sociology; Religious life; Women's Studies - General; Asceticism; Celibacy; Early church, ca. 30-600; 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.