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x, 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
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8vo. rdabf |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
Shaping of the doctrine, 50-450. Contraception in the Roman Empire -- The scriptural structure and external sources of doctrine -- Gnostics, pagans, and the Alexandrian rule -- The morals of the Manichees, and St. Augustine -- The condemnation ingrained, 450-1450. The lessons of the monks -- The canonists, the Cathars, and St. Augustine -- Contraceptive techniques : means and dissemination in the High Middle Ages -- The rationale of the prohibition -- Sanctions -- Counter approaches. |
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Innovation and preservation, 1450-1750. New attitudes and analyses -- The rule preserved -- Development and controversy, 1750-1964. The spread of birth control : the responses of the Bishops and the Pope -- Permitted and disputed means of controlling contraception -- The doctrine and the context. |
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APPE gift. InGrD |
| Subject |
Birth control -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines.
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Contraception -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines.
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Birth control -- Religious aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00833190
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Contraception -- history. (DNLM)D003267Q000266
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Catholicism. (DNLM)D002410
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Noonan, John Thomas, 1926- Contraception; a history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Cambridge, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965 (OCoLC)569989610 |
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