Apologia teológica da virgindade, ascetismo e virtude do celibato nos escritos de São Jerônimo

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Pedro Louzada
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2013.2608

The concern of the early centuries of Christianity not only with the appearance of woman but also her chastity, virginity and celibacy is a very recurring theme in the so-called patristic literature, whose doctrine was based on a vision of theological and patriarchal jurisdiction committed to certain postures and attitudes tendentiously misogynistic that used to see the woman as prone ab origine to disguise and adulteration of her image created by God. In this primeval Christian perception of the female, Saint Jerome (c. 342-420) stands out as an author of a moralist discourse strongly religious which submits the chastity, virginity and celibacy mainly female to precepts and prescriptions theologically constituted. This article proposes to discuss the main rhetorical, ideological and political aspects of those Christian virtues advocated by the primitive Christian religion of Saint Jerome in his anti-celibacy treatise entitled Adversus Jovinianus (Against Jovinian) (c. 393), work which represents in a exemplar way the author’s thinking about the subject.