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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"clerical celibacy"”.
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The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter's Argument for Clerical Celibacy
… CELIBATE 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 …
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The Priest's Wife in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050-1150
… very different 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 …
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Between the Pure and the Polluted: The Churching of Women in Medieval Northern France, 1100--1500
… the patriarchal structure of society. Clerical discussions of churching couched it predominantly in terms of the dangers of female sexuality and the superiority of clerical celibacy. Women, however, claimed the rite as an expression of personal importance, of their place in the …
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The secular Church and clergy in the Diocese of Argyll from circa 1189 to 1560
… origin 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 …
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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
… are rare, 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 …
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A commentary on Jerome's Contra Vigilantium
Innkeepers inspired this dissertation. After working on ‘innkeepers’ as a topic for a research seminar paper, I soon discovered that the term caupo counted as an insult according to several church fathers, including Jerome. In the Contra Vigilantium, Jerome mocked his enemy, Vigilantius, by calling …