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Identifier	Thesis 1591
Author	King, Elizabeth Ann
Title	Virginity in early Christian writings / Elizabeth Ann King
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2000
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	The focus of this thesis is to investigate, illustrate, and understand why the cult of virginity was and remains to be so important in Catholicism. Further, when did this phenomenon of virginity start? Why was the emphasis on maintaining a celibate life placed more on women then on men? What influenced these ideas and helped to develop them within Christianity? These are some of the questions that I am investigating in this thesis. I am providing a background that will serve as a foundation for the cult of virginity. This historical background will take a look at earlier societies and also at early Christian societies and what role virginity played within them. Moreover, I am looking at why these societies and how these societies influenced Christianity. These societies also serve as a foundation through which will be illustrated the cult of virginity's role in non-Christian societies and its influence in Christianity, using various historical texts and resources. Additionally, I am writing on the prevailing perceptions of women and the importance of virginity. I then use the writings of several Early Christian writers to show how these writers encouraged and supported celibacy, paticularly for women. Further, I also attempt to explain why virginity was so important and what role it played in the lives of women. Included with the various writings by the early Christian writers are the products of John Chrysostom, Ambrose and Augustine. I then begin my discussion of early Christian literature starting with the treatise On Virginity written by John Chrysostom in the late fourth century. I continue this discussion using the treatise Holy Virginity written by St Augustine around the year 401. Additionally, writings of Jerome and Ambrose are used. Further support and explanation is offered through the works of various religious theological historians. This thesis clearly demonstrates that the cult of virginity and the importance placed on a chaste lifestyle by early Christian, writers was not just about the physical body. Its main importance was that virginity was a spiritual and symbolic action that served the physical world as well as the spiritual world. Generally, that service to and of the spiritual world is of much greater significance. I am also providing an explanation with supporting evidence to what I believe is the reason that virginity was much more important for a woman to maintain than for a man.
Subject	Virginity -- Religious aspects -- History Celibacy -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600
Department	Department of History
Advisor	Sunshine, Glenn S., 1958-
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	45243298
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