Against Jovinianus: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Against Jovinianus, credited to Saint Jerome, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Against Jovinianus by Saint Jerome. (Translated by Philip Schaff; Henry Wace.) Read in English by ancientchristian Jovinianus, had published at Rome a treatise containing the following opinions: (1) "That a virgin is no better as such than a wife in the sight of God. (2) Abstinence is no better than a thankful partaking of food. (3) A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. (4) All sins are equal. (5) There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state." Also he held the birth of our Lord to have been natural, rather than that Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as His Resurrection body afterwards did out of the tomb. All these opinions were condemned in synods at that city and at Milan (about A.D. 390). He subsequently sent Jovinian's books to Jerome, who answered them in the present treatise in the year 393. Book I is wholly on (1), marriage and virginity. Chp 4-13 are Jerome's sense, of St. Paul's teaching in 1 Cor. vii. In chp. 14-39 Jerome uses both the Old and the New Testaments. Chp. 40 praises virginity and single marriages from examples in the heathen world. - Summary: A shortened version from the introduction.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Against Jovinianus
• Author credits: Saint Jerome
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 6:24:01

Catalogue topics

• marriage
• early church
• virginity
• church father
• chastity

Track guide

1. 01 - Book I, Chp 1-5 — 17:17
2. 02 - Book I, Chp 6-10 — 20:34
3. 03 - Book I, Chp 11-15 — 33:34
4. 04 - Book I, Chp 16-20 — 10:45
5. 05 - Book I, Chp 21-25 — 18:06
6. 06 - Book I, Chp 26-30 — 27:26
7. 07 - Book I, Chp 31-35 — 18:15
8. 08 - Book I, Chp 36-40 — 33:20
9. 09 - Book I, Chp 41-45 — 15:26
10. 10 - Book I, Chp 46-49 — 24:40
11. 11 - Book II, Chp 1-5 — 26:39
12. 12 - Book II, Chp 6-10 — 22:21
13. 13 - Book II, Chp 11-15 — 26:18
14. 14 - Book II, Chp 16-20 — 17:29
15. 15 - Book II, Chp 21-25 — 26:36
16. 16 - Book II, Chp 26-30 — 19:05
17. 17 - Book II, Chp 31-35 — 16:11
18. 18 - Book II, Chp 36-38 — 9:59

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