List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. JOVINIAN AND HIS WORLD; 1. Reconstructing Jovinian; 2. Jovinian and Christian Rome; PART II. JOVINIAN, HERESY, AND ASCETICISM; 3. Asceticism, Heresy, and Early Christian Tradition; 4. Jovinian, Heresy, and Fourth-Century Asceticism; 5. Mary Ever-Virgin? Jovinian and Marian Heresy; PART III. JOVINIAN AND HIS OPPONENTS; 6. Against Jovinian: From Siricius to Jerome; 7. After Jovinian: Marriage and Celibacy in Western Theology; Conclusion; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
A study of the 'heretic' Jovinian and the Jovinianist controversy, this work examines early Christian views on marriage and celibacy in the first three centuries and the development of an anti-heretical tradition. It provides an analysis of the responses of Jovinian's main opponents
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-307) and index
