Women in the Early Church

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Paradise Lost: Creation, Fall, and Marriage -- Augustine, On the Good of Marriage -- Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis -- Ambrose, On Paradise -- John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis -- John Chrysostom, Discourse 2 on Genesis -- John Chrysostom, The Kind of Women Who Ought To Be Taken As Wives -- Irenaeus, Against Heresies -- Tertullian, On the Dress of Women -- Augustine, Literal Commentary on Genesis -- Ambrose, On Paradise -- John Chrysostom, Homily 26 on I Corinthians -- John Chrysostom, Discourse 4 on Genesis -- Augustine, The City of God -- Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies -- Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence -- Augustine, On the Good of Marriage -- Augustine, On the Sermon on the Mount -- Augustine, Epistle 262 -- Tertullian, Exhortation to His Wife -- John Chrysostom, Homily 12 on I Corinthians -- John Chrysostom, Homily 5 on I Thessalonians -- John Chrysostom, Homily 19 on I Corinthians -- Chapter Two: Women Endangered: The Apocryphal Acts and Martyrdom -- Acts of Paul and Thecla -- Acts of John -- The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas -- Ambrose, On Virgins -- Prudentius, Crowns of Martyrdom -- Chapter Three: Paradise Regained: Asceticism in Theory and Practice -- Methodius, The Banquet -- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity -- John Chrysostom, On Virginity -- Jerome, Against Jovinian -- Jerome, Epistle 22 -- Palladius, Lausiac History -- Jerome, Epistle 108 -- Augustine, Epistle 211 -- Caesarius of Arles, Rules for the Holy Virgins -- John Chrysostom, On the Necessity of Guarding Virginity -- Tertullian, Exhortation to Chastity -- Tertullian, On Monogamy -- John Chrysostom, On Not Marrying Again -- Chapter Four: Women in the Wider World