Clerical Celibacy in the West: c.1100-1700
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apostolic
Apostolic Canons
Apostolic Origins
apostolic tradition studies
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clergy
Clerical Celibacy
Clerical Concubinage
Clerical Continence
Clerical Estate
Clerical Incontinence
Clerical Marriage
Clerical Wives
Compulsory Clerical Celibacy
concubinage
Concubinary Priests
continence
Das Register Gregors VII
ecclesiastical authority
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Evangelical Polemicists
gregory
history of priestly celibacy debate
Julius III
Latin church history
Levitical Priesthood
Luther's Marriage
Luther’s Marriage
marriage
married
Married Clergy
Married Men
Married Priests
Obligatory Celibacy
origins
Perpetual Continence
Pope Paul III
pre-Reformation Clergy
priesthood
priestly marriage debate
Reformation religious reforms
sacerdotal
Sacerdotal Celibacy
theological controversies
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754639497
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The debate over clerical celibacy and marriage had its origins in the early Christian centuries, and is still very much alive in the modern church. The content and form of controversy have remained remarkably consistent, but each era has selected and shaped the sources that underpin its narrative, and imbued an ancient issue with an immediacy and relevance. The basic question of whether, and why, continence should be demanded of those who serve at the altar has never gone away, but the implications of that question, and of the answers given, have changed with each generation. In this reassessment of the history of sacerdotal celibacy, Helen Parish examines the emergence and evolution of the celibate priesthood in the Latin church, and the challenges posed to this model of the ministry in the era of the Protestant Reformation. Celibacy was, and is, intensely personal, but also polemical, institutional, and historical. Clerical celibacy acquired theological, moral, and confessional meanings in the writings of its critics and defenders, and its place in the life of the church continues to be defined in relation to broader debates over Scripture, apostolic tradition, ecclesiastical history, and papal authority. Highlighting continuity and change in attitudes to priestly celibacy, Helen Parish reveals that the implications of celibacy and marriage for the priesthood reach deep into the history, traditions, and understanding of the church.
Helen Parish is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. She is the author of Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation (2000), Monks, Miracles and Magic (2005), and a number of articles on religion, church, and clergy in the early modern period.
