About Celibacy, I have No Instructions From the Lord

About the Book

The insistence on clerical celibacy was established in much of the Western Church beginning in the Fourth Century. It expanded slowly and unevenly throughout Late Antiquity and the early middle ages and at the Second Lateran Council in 1139 became Church Law. This Law of Celibacy decreed that Holy Orders were a absolute impediment to any in the higher clerical orders attempting to contract marriage. Any such marriage was automatically null and void in the eyes of the Church.

About the Author

Carl R. Triebs studied church history under George Hunston Williams at Harvard in the 1950's. After thirty-five years as an administrator and systems engineer, Mr. Triebs retired, renewed his early academic interests, and began the researches that have led to this book.