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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Celibacy"”.
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Celibacy and individuation : a Jungian perspective
… aim of this study is to answer the question: is celibacy psychologically heal thy with specific reference to Christianity? Jungian theory is utilized to develop a theoretical framework in which celibacy may be viewed. The meaning of celibacy is initially examined from a Christian perspective as a …
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Is Everybody Doing It? Marital Celibacy in the Cappadocians and Augustine
… that some Christian spouses adopted marital celibacy, or married persons' abstention from sexual intimacy, as an ascetic practice. The prevalent scholarship on marital celibacy has all too often read later practices of marital celibacy into earlier texts, due to scholars' tendency to …
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The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter's Argument for Clerical Celibacy
… PASTOR: RICHARD BAXTER’S ARGUMENT FOR CLERICAL CELIBACY Seth DeShields Osborne, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Chair: Dr. David L. Puckett This dissertation explores Richard Baxter’s (1615-1691) argument for clerical celibacy. It argues that his teaching on clerical …
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The early modern demographic dynamic : celibates and celibacy in seventeenth-century England
Chapter One begins by locating the rise in celibacy within the demographic context of Tudor and Stuart England. The most prominent feature of population change in the seventeenth century was the stagnation that occurred around 1650, following on as it did from a hundred years of almost …
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Marriage and celibacy in mediaeval Islam : a study of Ghazali's Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ'
… a religious debate on the merits of marriage and celibacy, a debate which first emerged in Sufi circles. The Kitab adab al-nikah directly responded to this controversy, providing the probably fullest discussion about marriage in mediaeval Islam and the most comprehensive list of reasons why …
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Toward a Protestant theology of celibacy : Protestant thought in dialogue with John Paul II's Theology of the Body.
This dissertation examines the theology of celibacy found both in John Paul II's writings and in current Protestant theology, with the aim of developing a framework and legitimation for a richer Protestant theology of celibacy. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis. Chapter 2 reviews the Protestant …
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The Priest's Wife in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050-1150
… responses to the drive to impose clerical celibacy. The overwhelming majority of women associated with clergy can be considered wives; there is no evidence of widespread clerical concubinage. Where women can be identified, it could be inferred that wives came from similar social groups as …
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Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy From Juvenal to Chaucer
… to monastic and sacerdotal exhortations to celibacy, and it is studied as a separate and distinct topos in Western literature. The topos is divided into three branches: the general (addressed to Everyman), the ascetic (addressed to exemplary Christians), and the philosophic (addressed to the …
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“Misogyny is Self Defense”: A Critical Analysis of Incel Discourse and Belief on Incels.is
… externalize the cause of their involuntary celibacy and use women as scapegoats for their lack of romantic and sexual success and use biologically determinist discourses to justify their anger that they are unable to perform a masculinity characterized by sexual conquest. This research …
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The Celibate Christ: A Suggestive Reading of John 20:17 μή μου ἅπτου οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα (“Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended”)
… by uncovering the preference given to voluntary celibacy over marriage in the ideology of the New Testament (NT). In this respect, I argue that the distance Jesus places between himself and his foremost female companion in John 20:17 is consonant with this theme in the NT canon. The chapter …
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Sinful, Sexual and Sometimes Smelly: Representations of Ethiopians, Women, and Ethiopian Women in Early Acetic Christian Literature
… by renunciation of sin in general and by celibacy in particular. Second, in literature by and about the early ascetic Christians, Ethiopians, women, and Ethiopian women are represented as particularly sinful and sexual. Third, these stereotypical representations of Ethiopians, women, and …
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Between the Pure and the Polluted: The Churching of Women in Medieval Northern France, 1100--1500
… female sexuality and the superiority of clerical celibacy. Women, however, claimed the rite as an expression of personal importance, of their place in the community, and as an opportunity to exert control over their lives. Consequently, by shaping the celebration of churching, ordinary women …
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A Critical Assessment of the Portrayal of Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarian Rule Texts, and of the Evidence for the Presence of Women in the Qumran Community
… information about the Essenes, including the celibacy issue, but their writings, as well as the scrolls themselves, and the early reception history of the scrolls, were all androcentric in nature. This research analysed the portrayal of women in the Rule texts using a multidisciplinary …
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A Study Of Identity Issues That Affect Clergy Leadership On LGBTQ Inclusion
… attraction traditional clergy advocated for celibacy, while progressive clergy advocated for same-sex marriage. When doing biblical interpretation on homosexuality, traditional clergy focused on specific passages where God commands “You shall not (commit this homosexual act)” in order to …
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The secular Church and clergy in the Diocese of Argyll from circa 1189 to 1560
… and status, issues of the practice of clerical celibacy, the extent of clerical concubinage, and the evidence for their education and learning. The thesis demonstrates that, despite numerous problems - poverty, periodical violence and warfare, exile, and the formidable powers of the Campbell and …
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Platforming Hate: An Analysis of Incel Ideology on Reddit’s r/Braincels
… of a community because in defining involuntary celibacy and setting parameters for in-group membership, they provide its geographically dispersed subscribers with commonality of purpose and identity (Caliandro 2018). Second, the users of r/Braincels form a networked public when they use Reddit’s …
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A soft man in hard times: Lionel Abrahams: writing the state of emergency
… study then turns to Abrahams first novel, The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan (1976), as well as several collections of poetry with a specific task: interrogating strategies of its overcoming. By taking the ban as being primarily a structure of relation (between language and things, the subject and …
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The judicial penal procedure for the dismissal of a diocesan priest from the clerical state according to the 1983 Code of Canon Law
… extinct (cc. 273-283) except the obligation of celibacy (c. 291). Because the expiatory penalty of dismissal from the clerical state has severe consequences for the offending cleric, Christian charity in the application of the prescripts of the Code calls for justice and equity recommended by …
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From Rome to 'the ends of the habitable world': the provision of clergy and church buildings in the Hebrides, circa 1266 to circa 1472
… failure to comply with canon law on clerical celibacy is clear from all supplications seeking dispensation for illegitimacy as the son of a priest. The churches, chapels and grave-yards were a focal point for these priests and for secular society. As important as the provision of clergy are …
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