Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy

by: Hunter, D.G.

Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity
The Jovinianist Controversy
David G. Hunter
Oxford Early Christian Studies
The first full-length study of Jovinian in English
Places Jovinian's writings in the context of the history of debates about marriage and celibacy
Sheds light on a variety of issues in late ancient Christianity, such as the rise of clerical celibacy and the origins of Marian devotion

Description
Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity is the first major study in English of the 'heretic' Jovinian and the Jovinianist controversy. David G. Hunter examines early Christian views on marriage and celibacy in the first three centuries and the development of an anti-heretical tradition. He provides a thorough analysis of the responses of Jovinian's main opponents, including Pope Siricius, Ambrose, Jerome, Pelagius, and Augustine. In the course of his discussion Hunter sheds new light on the origins of Christian asceticism, the rise of clerical celibacy, the development of Marian doctrine, and the formation of 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy' in early Christianity.

Table of Contents
I. Jovinian and his world
1:Reconstructing Jovinian
2:Jovinian and Christian Rome
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
III. Jovinian and his opponents
6:Against Jovinian: From Siricius to Jerome
7:After Jovinian: Marriage and celibacy in Western theology
Conclusion

Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy

by: Hunter, D.G.

• ISBN-13: 9780199279784 / 978-0-19-927978-4
• ISBN-03: 0199279780 / 0-19-927978-0
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007