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"When Brothers Dwell in Unity"
Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality
Taschenbuch von Stephen Morris
Sprache: Englisch

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In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic leaders was adolescent males being accepted as novices; adult men were considered unable to control their sexual desires for these "beautiful boys." John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople (397-407), virulently denounced homosexuality, but was virtually the only Byzantine cleric to do so.
Penances traditionally attached to heterosexual sins--including remarriage after divorce or widowhood--have always been much more severe than those for a variety of homosexual acts or relationships. Just as Byzantine churches have found ways to accommodate sequential marriages and other behavior once stridently condemned, this book argues, it is possible for Byzantine Christianity to make pastoral accommodations for gay relationships and same-sex marriage.
In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic leaders was adolescent males being accepted as novices; adult men were considered unable to control their sexual desires for these "beautiful boys." John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople (397-407), virulently denounced homosexuality, but was virtually the only Byzantine cleric to do so.
Penances traditionally attached to heterosexual sins--including remarriage after divorce or widowhood--have always been much more severe than those for a variety of homosexual acts or relationships. Just as Byzantine churches have found ways to accommodate sequential marriages and other behavior once stridently condemned, this book argues, it is possible for Byzantine Christianity to make pastoral accommodations for gay relationships and same-sex marriage.
Über den Autor
Stephen Morris is an independent scholar who lives in New York City. He has studied Byzantine and medieval history and theology at Yale and St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Academy and has written on patristic preaching and exegesis as well as medieval and Byzantine hagiography.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.¿"Receive Not Any Boys, Beardless Youths, and Eunuchs": Monastic Experience and the Beautiful Boys

2.¿The "Gay" Male as Byzantine Monster: Civil/Secular Legislation and Punishment for ­Same-Sex Behavior

3.¿"Better Than Free Fornication": Suspicious Sexual Relationships in Canon Law and Penitential Handbooks

4.¿"Their Teaching Satanic ... Their Life Also Diabolical": John Chrysostom on ­Same-Sex Behavior

5. "Look Down from Heaven, Behold and Visit This Vine": Liturgy and Anthropology of Adelphopoiia

Conclusions and Reflections

Appendix I. John Chrysostom's Homily 4 on Romans

Appendix II. Service to Bless a Second/Third Marriage

Appendix III. Service for Adelphopoiia

Appendix IV. Goar's ­Canonico-Historical Notes on Adelphopoiia

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786495177
ISBN-10: 0786495170
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Morris, Stephen
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen Morris
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,396 kg
Artikel-ID: 122686452
Über den Autor
Stephen Morris is an independent scholar who lives in New York City. He has studied Byzantine and medieval history and theology at Yale and St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Academy and has written on patristic preaching and exegesis as well as medieval and Byzantine hagiography.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.¿"Receive Not Any Boys, Beardless Youths, and Eunuchs": Monastic Experience and the Beautiful Boys

2.¿The "Gay" Male as Byzantine Monster: Civil/Secular Legislation and Punishment for ­Same-Sex Behavior

3.¿"Better Than Free Fornication": Suspicious Sexual Relationships in Canon Law and Penitential Handbooks

4.¿"Their Teaching Satanic ... Their Life Also Diabolical": John Chrysostom on ­Same-Sex Behavior

5. "Look Down from Heaven, Behold and Visit This Vine": Liturgy and Anthropology of Adelphopoiia

Conclusions and Reflections

Appendix I. John Chrysostom's Homily 4 on Romans

Appendix II. Service to Bless a Second/Third Marriage

Appendix III. Service for Adelphopoiia

Appendix IV. Goar's ­Canonico-Historical Notes on Adelphopoiia

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780786495177
ISBN-10: 0786495170
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Morris, Stephen
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen Morris
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.2015
Gewicht: 0,396 kg
Artikel-ID: 122686452
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