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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. Mk 10: 2-11 no divorce
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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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Covenant • Sacrament of love • Goals: • self-giving love • Procreation • Heterosexual & monogamous union