Marriage and Sexuality in Early Christianity

David G. Hunter is Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include early Christianity, patristics, and marriage and celibacy in the early church. He is author of Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity (2007) and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (2008).

Series Foreword
Preface

Part One: Introduction

1. The New Testament Evidence
1.1 Jesus and the Gospels
1.2 Paul
1.3 Later New Testament Writings

2. The Greco-Roman Environment
2.1 Marriage as a Legal Institution
2.2 Moral and Philosophical Ideals
2.3 Christian Responses: The Greek Apologists

3. Second and Third Centuries
3.1 Divorce and Remarriage
3.2 Christian Radicals: Marcion and the "Encratites"
3.3 Heresiology and the Emergence of "Proto-Orthodoxy"

4. The Post-Constantinian Church
4.1 From the Desert to the City: John Chrysostom
4.2 Western Controversies: From Jovinian to Augustine
4.3 The "Christianization" of Marriage: Poems, Laws, and Liturgies

Part Two: Texts and Translations

1. Hermas, The Shepherd (Mandate 4)
2. Tertullian, To His Wife; An Exhortation to Chastity; On Monogamy
3. Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, Book 2; Miscellanies, Book 2; Miscellanies, Book 3
4. Acts of Thomas, Act 1
5. Methodius of Olympus, Symposium, Discourse 2
6. Lactantius, Divine Institutes, Book 6
7. John Chrysostom, Homily 20 on Ephesians
8. Ambrosiaster, Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7
9. Jerome, Against Jovinian Book 1
10. Pelagius, Letter to the Matron Celantia
11. Augustine, The Good of Marriage; Sermon 354A; Letter 6* to Atticus
12. Paulinus of Nola: Carmen 25
13. Ecclesiastical Legislation: Canons of the Council of Elvira; Basil of Caesarea, Canonical Epistles
14. Two Nuptial Blessings: Verona Sacramentary; Hadrianum

Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources

Indexes
Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Scripture