De bono coniugali ; : De sancta uirginitate

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Label

De bono coniugali ; : De sancta uirginitate

Title remainder

De sancta uirginitate

Statement of responsibility

Augustine ; edited and translated by P.G. Walsh

Title variation

• De sancta uirginitate
• De bono coniugali ; De sancta uirginitate

Creator

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430

Contributor

• Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
• Walsh, P. G., (Patrick Gerard)

Subject

• Marriage -- Religious aspects | Christianity -- Early works to 1800
• Virginity -- Religious aspects | Christianity -- Early works to 1800
• Early works

Genre

• Early works to 1800
• Early works

Language

• eng
• lat
• lat
• eng

Summary

• In both these works, Augustine rebuffs the Manichees, analysing why marriage is good and why virginity is a higher good. This volume should show how these themes are closely related to present-day controversies between theologians and historians
• "De bono coniugali and De sancta Virginitate were written in the same year (AD 401). In them Augustine rebuffs the Manichees, who argued that marriage was evil, and the followers of Jovinian, who argued that the married state was as meritorious as that of virginity. The first work analyses why marriage is good, and the second why virginity is a higher good. Both are closely related to present-day controversies amongst theologians and social historians." "These two treatises have been neglected until recently, but lately there has been an outpouring of books and articles on the role of women in the societies of Rome and early Christianity. Moreover, Augustine has received and is continuing to receive enhanced attention in the English-speaking world. No new edition of these works has been published since 1900, and there is no contemporary English translation in print. This new translation and edition of the text will be of value both to readers who wish to consult the original Latin, and to those interested in the social history of early Christianity, and in the intellectual development of Augustine in his early years as bishop of Hippo."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Oxford early Christian texts

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

234/.165

Index

index present

LC call number

BR65.A6365

LC item number

E5 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Oxford early Christian texts