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Treatises on marriage and remarriage : To his wife : An exhortation to chastity : Monogamy
- Author
- Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230
- Preferred Title
- Ad oxorem : De exhortatione castitatis : De monogamia. English
- Title
- Treatises on marriage and remarriage : To his wife : An exhortation to chastity : Monogamy / Tertullian ; translated and annotated by William P. Le Saint.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Newman Press, c1951.
- Description
- vii, 196 p. ; 22 cm.
- Other contributors
- Le Saint, William P.
- Portion of title
- To his wife Exhortation to chastity Monogamy
- Other titles
- Victor Cheney Collection.
- Uniform series
- Ancient Christian writers ; no. 13.
- Notes
- Translation of: Ad uxorem, De exhortatione castitatis, and De monogamia. Includes bibliographical references and index. Supplement is a cutout from "The Watchtower", May 15, 2002.
- Contents
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- To his wife. A spiritual legacy ; Monogamy blessed by God ; Celibacy preferable to marriage ; The way of the flesh ; The way of the world ; The Christian way ; Examples of pagan virtue ; Various arguments against second marriage ; Dignity of chaste widowhood ; Safeguards of chastity ; Marriage "in the Lord" ; The apostle condemns mixed marriage ; Danger to faith and morals ; A house divided ; The Christian wife in a pagan world ; The situation of the convert ; Further arguments against mixed marriage ; The beauty of Christian marriage
- An exhortation to chastity. Three degrees of chastity ; Second marriage and the will of God ; The will of God and the will of man ; God's positive and his permissive will ; Better to marry than to burn ; St. Paul opposes second marriage ; Marriage in God's primeval plan ; The polygamy of the patriarchs ; The priesthood and monogamy ; Not all that is licit is good ; Marriage and concupiscence ; The blessings of continence ; The faithless spouse ; The specious reasoning of lust ; The challenge of the heathen
- Monogamy. Use and abuse of marriage ; Second marriage forbidden by the paraclete ; Revelation, not innovation ; The law of monogamy revealed in Genesis ; All things restored in Christ ; The example of Abraham ; The lesson of the Hebrew law ; New Testament models ; Christ's teaching on divorce ; The marriage bond stronger than death ; St. Paul does not permit second marriage ; Correct explanation of his teaching ; The obligation of monogamy not restricted to clerics ; Further examination of the apostle's teaching ; The doctrine of monogamy neither harsh nor heretical ; Sophisms of the sensualists ; Pagan chastity a judgment of the flesh.
- Kinsey subjects
- Catholic doctrine. Marriage. Catholic marriage. Monogamy.
- ISBN
- 0809101491 9780809101498