Table of Contents
CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS 10 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 13 INTRODUCTION 15 CHAPTER ONE: PARADISE LOST: CREATION, FALL, AND MARRIAGE 27 Augustine, On the Good of Marriage 27 Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis 28 Am brose, On Paradise 29 John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis 33 John Chrysostom, Discourse 2 on Genesis 34 John Chrysostom, The Kind of Women Who Ought To Be Taken As Wives 36 Irenaeus, Against Heresies 38 Tertullian, On the Dress of Women 38 Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis 39 Ambrose, On Paradise 41 John Chrysostom, Homily 26 on I Corinthians 42 John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis 42 Augustine, The City of God 44 Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 47 Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence 55 Augustine, On the Good of Marriage 61 Augustine, On the Sermon on the Mount 64 Augustine, Epistle 262 65 Tertullian, Exhortation to His Wife 69 John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on I Corinthians 71 John Chrysostom, Homily 5 on I Thessalonians 73 John Chrysostom, Homily 19 on I Corinthians 75 CHAPTER TWO: WOMEN ENDANGERED: THE APOCRYPHAL ACTS AND MARTYRDOM 77 Acts of Paul and Thecla 78 Acts of John 88 The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas 97 Ambrose, On Virgins 106 Prudentius, Crowns of Martyrdom 109 CHAPTER THREE: PARADISE REGAINED: ASCETICISM IN THEORY AND PRACTICE 115 Methodius, The Banquet 116 Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity 118 John Chrysostom, On Virginity 122 Jerome, Against Jovinian 126 Jerome, Epistle 22 131 Palladius, Lausiac History 133 Jerome, Epistle 108 134 Augustine, Epistle 211 137 Caesarius of ArIes, Rules for the Holy Virgins 141 John Chrysostom, On the Necessity of Guarding Virginity 144 Tertullian, Exhortation to Chastity 147 Tertullian, On Monogamy 151 John Chrysostom, On Not Marrying Again 153 CHAPTER FOUR: WOMEN IN THE WIDER WORLD 156 John Chrysostom, Homily 9 on I Timothy 156 John Chrysostom, Greet Priscilla and Aquila 158 John Chrysostom, Homily 7 on Matthew 160 Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies 160 Jerome, Epistle 133 161 Jerome, Epistle 127 163 Jerome, Epistle 108 163 Palladius, Lausiac History 164 Faltonia Betitia Proba, Cento 165 Jerome, Epistle 128 168 Jerome, Epistle 107 169 Tertullian, On Baptism 173 John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood 173 John Chrysostom, Saints Bernice and Prosdoce 174 Canons of Nicaea and Chalcedon 175 Apostolic Constitutions 176 Jerome, Epistle 77 181 Socrates Scholasticus, Church History 185 Egeria, The Pilgrimage of Egeria 186 Jerome, Epistle 108 197 CHAPTER FIVE: WOMEN AS MODELS AND MENTORS 204 Jerome, Epistle 127 205 Jerome, Epistle 108 209 Palladius, Lausiac History 213 Paulinus of Nola, Epistle 29 216 Jerome, Epistle 45 220 Palladius, Lausiac History 221 Palladius, Lausiac History 223 Life of Olympias 224 Jerome, Epistle 130 231 Gregory of Nyssa, Life of St. Macrina 235 John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood 244 Augustine, Confessions 245 Suggestions for Further Reading 259
