Love - individual views towards celibacy Flashcards
What did St. Paul believe about celibacy + quotes?
celibate
thought everyone should be ‘even as I am myself’
‘I say to the unmarried women and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry.’
Marriage = last resort ‘to avoid fornication’
What did St Augustine of Hippo believe about celibacy?
sex = continuation of original sin
sexual desire, even within marriage = sin
What did Tertullian (North American church father) believe about - quote?
to female virgins - ‘you are married to Christ, you have given your bodies to Him’
What did Ambrose believe about celibacy - quote?
‘One virgin may redeem her parents, another her brothers’
What did Mother Ann Lee (founder of Shakers) believe about celibacy?
celibacy needed to re-establish equality between men and women as it was in Garden of Eden
