ABSTRACT Numerous ancient texts present prescriptions on Christianity’s ethic, liturgy, leadership, and other institutions. Scholars call ‘church order literature’ a few of them composed in Greek, because of literary dependencies among them that make them an identifiable corpus. The composition of some of them seems to begin in the first century. In the fourth century, Christians began to gather them in various collections. While all these texts and their collections have no common literary genre, they do all purport to convey a tradition of apostolic teaching on the conduct of church life and its institutions. This teaching sees God’s law based on Christian scripture as the only valid law for church life. This article will present the prescriptions of that law conveyed by the ancient church order literature on the following topics: family requirements for membership in the church, prohibitions defining and defending marriage, regulations on family relationships, and restrictions on who may marry. Even in its dispositions on marriage and family, the ancient church order literature attests Christians’ contact with multiple legal regimes in the Roman empire. This literature reflects a view of the ancient Christian family that is typical in its difference from, and its similarity to, Greco-Roman conceptions.

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古代教会秩序文献中的婚姻家庭法

摘要 大量古代文献对基督教的伦理、礼仪、领导和其他制度提出了建议。学者们称其中一些是用希腊语创作的“教会秩序文学”，因为它们之间的文学依赖性使它们成为可识别的语料库。其中一些的组成似乎始于公元一世纪。在第四世纪，基督徒开始将它们收集在各种收藏品中。虽然所有这些文本及其收藏都没有共同的文学体裁，但它们都旨在传达关于教会生活及其机构行为的使徒教导传统。这种教导将基于基督教圣经的上帝律法视为教会生活中唯一有效的律法。本文将介绍有关以下主题的古代教会秩序文献传达的该法律的规定：教会成员的家庭要求、定义和捍卫婚姻的禁令、家庭关系的规定以及对结婚对象的限制。即使在婚姻和家庭方面，古代教会秩序文献也证明了基督徒与罗马帝国多种法律制度的接触。这些文献反映了古代基督教家庭的观点，这种观点与希腊罗马概念的不同之处和相似之处是典型的。