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Remarriage in Early Christianity
0802883745 epub What did early Christians believe about remarriage after divorce? The New Testament sends mixed messages about divorce. Jesus forbids it in Marks and Lukes Gospels, but he seems to make an exception for victims of infidelity in Matthews Gospel. Paul permits divorce in 1 Corinthians when an unbeliever initiates it. Yet other Pauline passages imply that remarriage after divorce constitutes adultery. A. Andrew Das confronts this dissonance in Remarriage in Early Christianity. Challenging scholarly consensus, Das argues that early Christians did not approve of remarriage after divorce. His argumentcovering contemporary Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts, the Gospels, Pauls letters, and ante-Nicene interpretationreveals greater consistency in early Christianity than is often assumed. Das pays special attention to the Greek words used in contemporary bills of divorce and in the New Testament, offering much-needed clarity on hotly contested concepts like Read more