The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter R.L. Brown

The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

Peter R.L. Brown

504 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book describes the early Christians and their preoccupations. It follows the reflection and controversy thes...

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