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Primary Sources

Book or monograph Augustine, "On the Good of Marriage," Treatises on Marriage and Other Subjects. Fathers of the Church, Vol. 27. Charles T. Willcox, et al, , translators. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. Hbk. ISBN: 0813209676. pp.456.
Book or monograph Augustine, On Marriage and Concupience, R. Holmes & R.E. Wallis, trans. Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, 1st series, Vol. 5. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1887.
Book or monograph John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life. C.P. Roth & D. Anderson, trans. Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary, 1986. Pbk. ISBN: 0913836869. pp.114.
Book or monograph Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 3, Henry Chadwick, trans. J. Baillie, ed. Library of Christian Classics, Vol. 2. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1954.
Book or monograph Tertullian, To His Wife and Monogamy, W.P. LeSaint, trans. Ancient Christian Writers., Vol. 13. New York: Newman, 1951.

Secondary Sources

Article in Journal or Book A.H. Curtis, "Marriage in the Bible and the Early Christian Church," Expository Times 59 (1947): 12-13; 42-44; 77-79.
Book or monograph John J. Hugo, St. Augustine on Nature, Sex, and Marriage. Chicago: Scepter, 1969. Pbk. ISBN: 1889334073. pp.237.
Book or monograph Marriage in the Early ChurchDavid G. Hunter, ed., Marriage in the Early Church. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2001. Pbk. ISBN: 157910827X. pp.164.
Book or monograph G.H. Joyce, Christian Marriage:An Historical and Doctrinal Study, 2nd edn. London: Sheed and Ward, 1948.
Article in Journal or Book M.Y. MacDonald, "The Ideal of the Christian Couple: Ign. Pol. 5:1-2 looking back to Paul," New Testament Studies 40 (1994): 105-25.
Book or monograph John T. Noonan, Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists, 2nd edn. Harvard University Press, 1965. Hbk. ISBN: 0674168518 .
Article in Journal or Book Greg Peters, "Spiritual Marriage in Early Christianity. 1 Cor. 7:25-38 in Modern Exegesis and the Earliest Church," Trinity Journal 23.2 (2002): 211-224.
Article in Journal or Book C. Paul Schroeder, "The Mystery of Love: Paradigms of Marital Authority and Submission in the Writings of St John Chrysostom," St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 44.2 (2000): 143-168.
Book or monograph Kenneth E. Stevenson, Nuptial Blessing: A Study of Christian Marriage Rites. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Hbk. ISBN: 0195204190. pp.260.
Book or monograph O.L. Yarbrough, Not Like The Gentiles: Marriage Rules in the Letters of Paul. Atlanta: Scholars, 1985.

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