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“The new ideal of virginity and widowhood opened up a new era of sympathetic collaboration between men and women, and for male-female friendship. By establishing a category of women who were understood to be off-limits with respect to romantic entanglements, writers like Gregory were able to support and even celebrate a feminine version of Christianity without being afraid to seem as if they had fallen under the influence of feminine charms.”
― Kate Cooper, Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women

“According to St. Augustine of Hippo (354��430), “The highest good, than which there is no higher, is God �� And consequently, if He alone is unchangeable, all things that He has made, because He has made them out of nothing, are changeable.�� Augustine also used the idea of logoi spermatikoi in the context of seminal reasons (rationes seminales, Latin from the Greek λόγοι σπερματικο�� or logoi spermatikoi), or “seedlike principles,�� “causal principles.�� Based on this theory, God created the world by inseminating the void with seed. Other Christian thinkers accepted the idea, including Justin Martyr (100��165), Athenagoras of Athens (133��190), Tertullian (155��220), Gregory of Nyssa (335��395), Bonaventure (1221��1274), Albertus Magnus (1200��1280), and Roger Bacon (1219/20��1292).”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE