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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1971 - 8/31/1971

Funding Totals

$1,500.00 (approved)
$1,500.00 (awarded)

The Abolition of Sexual Distinctions in Early Christian Groups

FAIN: FT-11094-71

Wayne Meeks
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

Some early Christian groups saw differences between sexes as basic flaw in life and a prime symbol of cosmic disorder. Fellow will study why this belief was accepted by some groups but not by others and why some sects renounce family while others gave theological warrant to mongamy.