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De Bono Coniugali And De Sancta Virginitate

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by St Augustine

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St Augustine
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
March 2001

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"De Bono Coniugali" and "De Sancta Virginitate" were written in the same year (AD 401). In them, Augustine rebuffs the Manichees, who argued that marriage was evil, and the followers of Jovinian, who argued that the married state was as meritorious as that of virginity. The first work analyses why marriage is good, and the second analyses why virginity is a higher good. Both are closely related to present-day controversies amongst theologians and social historians. These two treatises have been neglected until recently, but lately there has been an outpouring of books and articles on the role of women in the societies of Rome and early Christianity. Moreover, Augustine has received and is continuing to receive enhanced attention in the English-speaking world. No new edition of these works has been published since 1900, and there is no contemporary English translation in print. This new translation and edition of the text will be of value both to readers who wish to consult the original Latin, and to those interested in the social history of early Christianity, and in the intellectual development of Augustine in his early years as Bishop of Hippo.