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The Manly Priest
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-02 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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During the High Middle Ages, members of the Anglo-Norman clergy not only routinely took wives but also often prepared their own sons for ecclesiastical careers.
The Manly Priest
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-08 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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The Manly Priest examines the clerical celibacy movement in medieval England and Normandy, which produced a new model of religious masculinity for the priesthoo
Mansfield's Book of Manly Men
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Stephen Mansfield
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-26 - Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

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Witty, compelling, and shrewd, Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men is about resurrecting your inborn, timeless, essential, masculine self. The Western world is in a
The Corrupter of Boys
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Dyan Elliott
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-27 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In the fourth century, clerics began to distinguish themselves from members of the laity by virtue of their augmented claims to holiness. Because clerical celib
Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Fr. Carter Griffin
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-01 - Publisher: Emmaus Road Publishing

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“The Church today demands a profound renewal of celibate priesthood and the fatherhood to which it is ordered.” Priestly celibacy, some say, is an outdated