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The Church Fathers did not neglect to give attention to widows and articulate what they believed was their role in the Church. Modern studies are quite abundant focusing mainly from the New Testament, the early Church, and the Middle Ages. One era that has been marginalized is widows in sources from late antique Roman and Suevic-Visigothic Hispania. Early Christian writers are noted for background only, the focus here are the conciliar texts dating from the fourth through seventh centuries.
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The original contribution of the Bishop of Hippo to the formation of widows is the study of spiritual, internal beauty (pulchritudo spiritalis). It was perfectly harmonized with other indications addressed to them, especially in De bono viduitatis and Epistula 130, and is part of a much wider concept of the spiritual man (homo spirituals), which after 411 the Hipponese develops in an anti-Pelagian context. Although the widow's abstinence is a gift from God and prompts her to be grateful, it does not absolve her from the trouble of pleasing her Bridegroom. Since the great shepherd of the Church of Hippo was well aware that he should teach continence so that widows themselves would love it, he speaks of it and of all God-consecrated widowhood in terms of beauty and spiritual bliss. Yes, step by step, with unparalleled eloquence and skill, it traces the smallest elements of the spiritual beauty of violas viduarum.
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Oryginalnym wkładem biskupa Hippony w formację wdów jest nauka o pięknie duchowym, wewnętrznym (pulchritudo spiritalis). Została ona doskonale zharmonizowana z innymi wskazaniami adresowanymi do nich zwłaszcza w De bono viduitatis oraz Epistula 130 i jest częścią o wiele szerszej koncepcji człowieka duchowego (homo spirituals), którą po 411 roku Hippończyk rozwija w kontekście antypelagiańskim. Choć wstrzemięźliwość wdowia jest darem Bożym i skłania do wdzięczności, to jednak nie zwalnia z trudu podobania się Oblubieńcowi. Ponieważ wielki pasterz Kościoła w Hipponie zdawał sobie doskonale sprawę, że o wstrzemięźliwości powinien uczyć tak, aby pokochały ją same wdowy, dlatego też mówi o niej i o całym poświęconym Bogu wdowieństwie w kategoriach piękna i rozkoszy duchowych. Tak, krok po kroku z niezrównaną swadą i znawstwem kreśli najdrobniejsze elementy duchowego piękna violas viduarum.
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