Monogamy
idea · 5 works · 7 mentions · 13 anchored passages
monogamy · one marriage · the monogamic principle · a single marriage · chastity · single marriage · the discipline of monogamy · the manner of marrying · the monogamic relation
in the texts
De Monogamia
The discipline of marrying only once, defended as ancient, Christian, and spiritually mandated
We acknowledge one marriage, as we acknowledge one God.
Now, turned to the law that is properly ours, that is, to the gospel, with what examples are we welcomed, as we come on to its sentences?
God has judged otherwise than men, so that altogether—whether through marriage or in common—the admission of another man is pronounced by him to be adultery.
Law in a Free State
The principle of one-spouse marriage, argued to underlie the highest civilisations and to be beneficial for children quite apart from any religious motive, though State efforts to enforce chastity by legislation are questioned.
Monogamy is not the outcome of religious asceticism.
For my part, I do not believe that even the approximation towards monogamy observable to-day among civilised races could have been imposed upon them from without.
Is it necessary, because we believe in monogamic unions, both from the point of view of the individual's happiness and also as a racial tendency, that we should condemn all other unions without a hearing?
Stromata
The principle, established from Paul's teaching on the bound wife, that a woman may marry only once while her husband lives.
But the second passage establishes monogamy.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The practice of marrying only once, argued to be the divinely instituted and universally binding standard for Christians.
Hence, therefore, among us it is more fully and instructively prescribed that those who are chosen into the priestly order ought to be of one marriage.
In short, monogamy among the heathen is in such high honour that even for virgins lawfully marrying a matron of one husband is employed as bride-attendant;
And therefore the man of God, Adam, and the woman of God, Eve, having performed one marriage between themselves, sanctioned for men a model from the authority of their origin and the first will of God.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The doctrine restricting Christians to a single marriage, referenced as a previously treated topic.
As to the manner of marrying, we have already published our defence of monogamy.