Friday, March 6, 2026

Encratism as celibacy in early Christianity

 apocryphal encratism book

ENCRATISM: EARLY CHRISTIAN ASCETIC EXTREMISM CECIRE, ROBERT CLYDE .   University of Kansas ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,  1985 

 

 MOTIVATIONS FOR ENCRATITE PRACTICES IN EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE Author(s): Andrew R. Guffey

 

 

 

 

 

 First have of the 3rd century...

 

 Eschatology, Androgynous Thinking, Encratism, and the Question of Anti-Gnosticism in 2 Clement 12 (Part One)

2 Clement 12:2b quotes
an unrecorded saying of Jesus regarding the timing of the kingdom of God: "...When the two shall be one, and the outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male or female".

  2 Clement was included in some early Bible manuscripts (such as the Codex Alexandrinus)

 agrapha (unwritten sayings) of Jesus, ‘Salome asked correctly when the Logos spoke of the end, “How long shall death prevail?” Whereupon the Lord very aptly answered, “As long as you women bear children”’ (The Gospel of the Egyptians, frag. 4, trans. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament, 18).

 Robert M. Price

Celibacy and Free Love in Early Christianity
Theology & Sexuality, 
2006

 

 Christian texts, right down until the
Reformation (and long after it in the Roman Catholic Church), have been
primarily the product of male celibates, who have not generally been
concerned to articulate the interests and insights of married people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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