Canons having to do with marriage and sex

[Borislav]

I am looking for Canons censuring Monks for condemning marriage, sex and women.

Maybe you can point me in the right direction.

I downloaded a copy of The Rudder, but I am having trouble using the
search feature in it, and reading the whole thing would take months :)

Maybe somebody knows a few good cases right of the top of their head.

I think there was a case involving Evagrius. Not sure where to find
the info though.

Thank you in advance.

[Effie Ganatsios]

I am looking for Canons censuring Monks for condemning marriage, sex and women.

Maybe you can point me in the right direction.

I downloaded a copy of The Rudder, but I am having trouble using the
search feature in it, and reading the whole thing would take months :)

Maybe somebody knows a few good cases right of the top of their head.

I think there was a case involving Evagrius. Not sure where to find
the info though.

Thank you in advance.

Borislav, I think we've already discussed this in the past.


I found the following :

The Church Council of Gangra held in 340 A.D. decreed four canons which uphold the respectability of the marriage bed.

Canon One states:

If anyone disparages marriage, or abominates or disparages a woman sleeping with her husband, notwithstanding that she is faithful and reverent, as though she could not enter the Kingdom, let him be anathema. [42]

Canon Nine states:

If anyone should remain a virgin or observe continence as if, abominating marriage, he had become an anchorite, and not for the good standard and holy feature of virginity, let him be anathema. [43]

Canon Ten states:

If anyone leading a life of virginity for the Lord should regard married persons superciliously, let him be anathema. [44]

Canon Fourteen states:

If any woman should abandon her husband and wish to depart, because she abominates marriage, let her be anathema. [45]

The abstention from sexual relations is for the sake of spiritual matters and preparation. This reasoning is as old as the Church itself, since St. Paul in his letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 7:5) indicates that husband and wife should not refuse each other except for times when they devote themselves to prayer."


Effie