The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

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In his new introduction, Brown reflects on his work's reception in the scholarly community. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries A.D. and traces early Christians' preoccupations with sexuality and the body in the work of the period's great writers.

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