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Celibacy

Celibacy (from Latin caelibatus) is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both. It is often in association with the role of a religious official or devotee. In its narrow sense, the term celibacy is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction. In…

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related to Bibliography · 32
Celibacy → Brown, Catholic Church Insist, Clerics, Collegeville, Discipline, Donald Cozzens, Early Church, East, Enjoying It, Freeing Celibacy, Gabrielle, German, Heid, Ignatius Press, ISBN, Liturgical Press, McGraw-Hill, Michael, Miller, Minn
related to Islam · 27
Celibacy → Anyone, Ayn, But, Companions, God, Hereafter, Hoor, In, Islam, Islamic, Jesus, Monasticism, Muhammad, Oh, Paradise, Q4, Q57, Q64, Qur'an, Several Qur'an
related to After Augustine · 25
Celibacy → Anglican, Another, Canon Law, Catholic Church, Christian, Church, Ephrata Cloister, Franciscans, Harmony Society, Hippo, It, Local Ordinary, Lord, Lutheran, Mary, One, Origen, Protestant, Saint Augustine, Saint Paul
related to Desert Fathers · 20
Celibacy → AD, Anthony, Anthony's, By, Christ, Christian, Christianity, Desert Fathers, Great, He, Matthew, Over, Paul, Religious, Sometime, Sunday, The Desert Fathers, Thebes, They, Thousands
related to Buddhism · 19
Celibacy → An, Buddha, Buddhist, But, Gautama, Gautama Buddha, Higashifushimi Kunihide, In, In Japan, Japan, Japanese, Later, Mahayana, Meiji Restoration, Princess Yasodharā, Rahula, Subsequently, The, Theravada
related to Christianity · 18
Celibacy → Christ, For, Furthermore, However, Jesus Christ's, King, Let, Matthew, Mother, New Testament, Not, NRSV, One, Rex, Son, There, Voluntary, While
related to Ancient Greece and Rome · 12
Celibacy → Both Cicero, Dionysius, Greek, Halicarnassus, In Sparta, Later, Pythagoras, Pythagorean, Pythagoreanism, Roman, The Pythagorean, There
related to The Balkans · 12
Celibacy → Albanian Orthodox, English, Kanun, Kanuni, Lekë Dukagjini, Lekë Dukagjinit, Muslims, Roman Catholics, The, The Code, The Kanun, Women
related to Abstinence and celibacy · 10
Celibacy → Asexuality, Catholic, Catholicism, Elizabeth Abbott, History, Richard Sipe, Sexual, Sipe, The, United States
related to Catholic Church · 8
Celibacy → Council, During, Elvira, Gangra, Mansi, Statutes, The Apostolic Constitutions, The Synod

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celibate life church priests marriage religious abstinence married one catholic also clerics vow state men often sexual order however chastity

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Celibacyis aresponse from the inside0.90text
Celibacyis amatter of choice0.90text
Celibacyis amoral virtue0.90text
Celibacyis areflection of life in Heaven0.90text
an individual's personal or religious beliefs.Ainstance ofas celibacy and sexual abstinence are behavioral and those who use those terms for themselves are generally motivated by factors0.80text
Celibacyrelated to Abstinence and celibacyThe0.60section
Celibacyrelated to Abstinence and celibacySexual0.60section
Celibacyrelated to Abstinence and celibacyAsexuality0.60section
Celibacyrelated to Abstinence and celibacyRichard Sipe0.60section
Celibacyrelated to Abstinence and celibacyCatholicism0.60section
Celibacyrelated to Abstinence and celibacySipe0.60section
Celibacyrelated to Abstinence and celibacyCatholic0.60section

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