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"When Brothers Dwell in Unity": Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality Paperback - 2016

by Stephen Morris

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In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homosexual impulses of adult males. What most disturbed monastic leaders was adolescent males being accepted as novices; adult men were considered unable to control their sexual desires for these "beautiful boys." John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople (397-407), virulently denounced homosexuality, but was virtually the only Byzantine cleric to do so.

Penances traditionally attached to heterosexual sins--including remarriage after divorce or widowhood--have always been much more severe than those for a variety of homosexual acts or relationships. Just as Byzantine churches have found ways to accommodate sequential marriages and other behavior once stridently condemned, this book argues, it is possible for Byzantine Christianity to make pastoral accommodations for gay relationships and same-sex marriage.

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  • Title "When Brothers Dwell in Unity": Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality
  • Author Stephen Morris
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland and Company, Inc.
  • Date 2016-03-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780786495177 / 0786495170
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Byzantine Empire - Church history, Homosexuality - Religious aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015048136
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.835

About the author

Stephen Morris is an independent scholar who lives in New York City. He has studied Byzantine and medieval history and theology at Yale and St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Academy and has written on patristic preaching and exegesis as well as medieval and Byzantine hagiography.

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