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Women and Men in the Early Church: The Full Views of St. John Chrysostom is unavailable, but you can change that!

David C. Ford lets John Chrysostom speak for himself, bringing the wisdom of the ancient Christian father to bear on gender issues. Drawing heavily from Chrysostom’s homilies and other primary sources, he illuminates Chrysostom’s teachings on marriage, sexuality, gender roles in the family and church, and his view of women in general. Analyzing Chrysostom’s views on these issues, Ford shows that...

It is, however, one thing for married persons to have intercourse only for the wish to beget children, which does not have guilt (culpam); it is another thing for them to desire carnal pleasure (carnis voluptatem) in intercourse (concumbendo), but with the spouse only, which has venial sin (venialem culpam).44 Yet even when children are created who are to become citizens of God’s Kingdom, and even when they are conceived in the bonds of the Christian sacrament of marriage, still, the inevitable concupiscence
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