Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700
| Authors | Levin, Eve |
| Tags | Sex customs -- Europe Eastern -- History, Slavs -- Sexual behavior -- History, Orthodox Eastern Church members -- Europe Eastern -- Sexual behavior -- History, Sex -- Religious aspects -- Orthodox Eastern Church -- History |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Published | 23 gen 1989 |
| Date | 05 nov 2021 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | uri: https://archive.org/details/sexsocietyinworl0000levi, oclc: 1280774101 |
Description
Elliott p. 85n137 (PDF p. 101):
The Latin church reserved the phenomenon of the virgin birth for Christ. This was not true for the East, particularly the Slavic church, where a number of saints were said to have been born of chaste unions (see Eve Levin, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700 [Ithaca, N.Y., 1989], pp. 61-65 [PDF pp. 81-85]). This discrepancy may devolve from differing theological perspectives. John Chrysostom, for example, tended to dissociate sex and reproduction, seeing children as gifts from God that could have been procured by extrasexual means, if humanity had not been so weak as to need marriage in order to control concupiscence.