Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy"Fr Christian Cochini has made a thorough examination, based on years of extensive research, of the topic of clerical celibacy in the first seven centuries of the Church's history. ...." [from back cover] |
Contents
Defining the Problem Does Clerical Celibacy | 3 |
The State of the Issue | 18 |
Methodological Precisions | 47 |
The Issue of the Apostles Marriages | 65 |
Instances of Clerics Who Were Married | 84 |
Nestorian Church of Persia | 121 |
From the Origins to the Year 390 | 139 |
Conclusion of Section A | 245 |
Patristic Writers | 288 |
Anonymous and Apocryphal Texts | 307 |
Imperial Laws | 318 |
Imperial Laws | 352 |
7th Century | 382 |
Legislation on Marriage and Continence for the Lower Clerics | 411 |
General Conclusion | 429 |
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