St. Augustine on Marriage and Sexuality

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St. Augustine on
Marriage and Sexuality
EDITED BY
ELIZABETH A. CLARK
The Catholic University of America Press
Washington, D. C.
Copyright © 1996
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
St. Augustine on marriage and sexuality / edited by Elizabeth A.
Clark.
p. cm. - (Selections from the Fathers of the church; v. 1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Marriage-Religious aspects-Christianity. 2. Sex-Religious
aspects-Christianity. 1. Clark, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann),
1938- . II. Title. III. Series: Fathers of the church. Selections;
v. 1.
BR65·A52E6 1996
241' .63-dc2o
96-8089
ISBN 0-8132-0866-1 (alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8132-0867-x (alk. paper)
For Annabel Wharton
Scholar, teacher, friend

CONTENTS
Abbreviations IX
Introduction
1. Augustine's Life and Models 13
2. Marriage and Sexuality in Augustine's
Anti-Manichean Writings 32
3. The Ascetic Debates and Augustine's
Response 42
4. Augustine's Mature Position in the
Anti-Pelagian Writings 71
General Index 107
Index of Holy Scripture 11 1
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ABBREVIATIONS
WORKS OF ST. AUGUSTINE
C Confessiones
CF Contra Faustum
CJ Contra Julianum
DBV De Beata Vita
DBVid De Bono Viduitatis
DCD De Civitate Dei
DFO De Fide et Operilms
DGnL De Genesi ad Litteram
DGnM De Genesi Adversus Manichaeos
DME De Morilms Ecclesiae Catholicae et De Morilms Mani
chaeorum
DN De Nuptiis et Concupiscentia
DOM De OPere Monachorum
DOr De Ordine
DPMR De Peccatorum Meritis et Remissione
DSL De Spiritu et Littera
DSV De Sancta V irginitate
DVR De Vera Religione
EAL Enchiridion ad Laurentium or De Fide, Spe, et Caritate
EnP Enarrationes in Psalmos
R Retractationes
S Sermones
TEJ Tractatus in Evangelium Joannis
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St. Augustine on
Marriage and Sexuality