The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
| Authors | Brown, Peter Robert Lamont |
| Tags | Celibacy—Christianity—History of doctrines—Early church, Virginity—Religious aspects Christianity—History of doctrines—Early church, Sex—Religious aspects—Christianity History of doctrines—Early church, Asceticism—History—Early church |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Published | 25 gen 1988 |
| Date | 20 apr 2015 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | oclc: 42854689, isbn: 9780231061018, google: gIDeAhZG9a4C, lcn: BT708.B77 1988, uri: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01093 |
| Formats | EPUB, PDF |
Description
Written by a secular historian of Protestant background, Brown incorectly thinks St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians was written by "Pseudo-Paul" and his Letters to the Corinthians by "Paul." These letters are the inspired Word of God, written by St. Paul, and they are part of the Catholic Scriptural Canon.
mentioned in CUA philosopher Rist's article in Remaining in the Truth of Christ
cited in Roman Cholij's Priestly celibacy in patristics and in the history of the Church
To a young girl escaping family pressure due to her choice of vocation and who rushed up to St. Ambrose's altar and covered her head with the altar-cloth as a veil to hide from her mother, St. Ambrose said, with much patience and wisdom:
Conquer family loyalty first, my girl: if you overcome the household, you overcome the world.
—recorded in St. Ambrose's De Virginibus 1.12.63; trans. in the secular historian Peter R. L. Brown's The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 344.
(cf. Ps. 44:11-12: "forget thy people and thy father's house. And the king shall greatly desire thy beauty")