Women in the Early Church

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Pub. Date: 1984-10-01
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Summary

"Elizabeth Clark, a patristic scholar and founder of the Department of Religion at Mary Washington College, has drawn upon her depth of scholarship and linguistic ability to make available to an educated but nonspecialized readership an intriguing mosaic of opinions." - America

Table of Contents

Abbreviations 10(1)
Editor's Introduction 11(2)
Acknowledgments 13(2)
Introduction 15(12)
Paradise Lost: Creation, Fall, and Marriage
27(50)
Augustine, On the Good of Marriage
27(1)
Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis
28(1)
Ambrose, On Paradise
29(4)
John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis
33(1)
John Chrysostom, Discourse 2 on Genesis
34(2)
John Chrysostom, The Kind of Women Who Ought to Be Taken As Wives
36(2)
Irenaeus, Against Heresies
38(1)
Tertullian, On the Dress of Women
38(1)
Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis
39(2)
Ambrose, On Paradise
41(1)
John Chrysostom, Homily 26 on I Corinthians
42(1)
John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis
42(2)
Augustine, The City of God
44(3)
Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies
47(8)
Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence
55(6)
Augustine, On the Good of Marriage
61(3)
Augustine, On the Sermon on the Mount
64(1)
Augustine, Epistle 262
65(4)
Tertullian, Exhortation to His Wife
69(2)
John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on I Corinthians
71(2)
John Chrysostom, Homily 5 on I Thessalonians
73(2)
John Chrysostom, Homily 19 on I Corinthians
75(2)
Women Endangered: The Apocryphal Acts and Martyrdom
77(38)
Acts of Paul and Thecla
78(10)
Acts of John
88(9)
The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas
97(9)
Ambrose, On Virgins
106(3)
Prudentius, Crowns of Martyrdom
109(6)
Paradise Regained: Asceticism in Theory and Practice
115(41)
Methodius, The Banquet
116(2)
Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity
118(4)
John Chrysostom, On Virginity
122(4)
Jerome, Against Jovinian
126(5)
Jerome, Epistle 22
131(2)
Palladius, Lausiac History
133(1)
Jerome, Epistle 108
134(3)
Augustine, Epistle 211
137(4)
Caesarius of Arles, Rules for the Holy Virgins
141(3)
John Chrysostom, On the Necessity of Guarding Virginity
144(3)
Tertullian, Exhortation to Chastity
147(4)
Tertullian, On Monogamy
151(2)
John Chrysostom, On Not Marrying Again
153(3)
Women in the Winder World
156(48)
John Chrysostom, Homily 9 on I Timothy
156(2)
John Chrysostom, Greet Priscilla and Aquila
158(2)
John Chrysostom, Homily 7 on Matthew
160(1)
Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies
160(1)
Jerome, Epistle 133
161(2)
Jerome, Epistle 127
163(1)
Jerome, Epistle 108
163(1)
Palladius, Lausiac History
164(1)
Faltonia Betitia Proba, Cento
165(3)
Jerome, Epistle 128
168(1)
Jerome, Epistle 107
169(4)
Tertullian, On Baptism
173(1)
John Chrysostom, On the Prieshood
173(1)
John Chrysostom, Saints Bernice and Prosdoce
174(1)
Canons of Nicaea and Chalcedon
175(1)
Apostolic Constitutions
176(5)
Jerome, Epistle 77
181(4)
Socrates Scholasticus, Church History
185(1)
Egeria, The Pilgrimage of Egeria
186(11)
Jerome, Epistle 108
197(7)
Women As Models And Mentors
204(55)
Jerome, Epistle 127
205(4)
Jerome, Epistle 108
209(4)
Palladius, Lausiac History
213(3)
Paulinus of Nola, Epistle 29
216(4)
Jerome, Epistle 45
220(1)
Palladius, Lausiac History
221(2)
Palladius, Lausiac History
223(1)
Life of Olympias
224(7)
Jerome, Epistle 130
231(4)
Gregory of Nyssa, Life of St. Macrina
235(9)
John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood
244(1)
Augustine, Confessions
245(14)
Suggestions for Further Reading 259

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