Clerical Celibacy

The Heritage

By: William E. Phipps

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Paperback | 1 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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William Phipps' study gives a comprehensive, historically-based account of the commitment of the Roman Catholic Church to a celibate priesthood.

His position is, he states, 'conservative, not radical. Mandatory celibacy is relatively new-fangled, having appeared during the last half of the church's existence. The innovation was imposed in the feudal and crusading era, a dark period for the Church.'

Phipps' understanding comes from probing ancient religious texts, from the careful study of church history, and by finding studies that provide factual assessments of the general individual and cultural consequences of celibacy. He avoids unrepresentative journalistic anecdote and provides balance, by allowing celibate advocates and church representatives to speak for themselves.

The book is distinguished by its application of a modern methodology to biblical texts in examination of the biblical justifications for celibacy.

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'This is both a history of the origins and development of clerical celibacy, and a polemic against its imposition on the clergy of the Latin Church. Commendably brief, it covers the background of the Jewish society out of which Christianity sprang, and in which marriage seems to have been virtually compulsory; it explores whether Jesus was married or committed to the celibacy that official Roman Catholicism assumes him to have exemplified; and traces the way in which celibacy became roote in the Latin Church, first as an ideal, and subsequently as a condition for entering and exercising the ministry.' -Robert Nowell, Church Times --Sanford Lakoff "Church Times "

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