1937 Encyclical to the Sacred Clergy and Greek People Concerning the Scandal of Avoiding Child-bearing and Child-rearing (original) (raw)

Fathers of the Church on Contraception

This thesis details how the Early Fathers of the Church saw contraception as an Anti-life act. They condemned it as they condemned, abortion, infanticide and herbal contraceptives as against life. This details the Early Fathers teaching through St. Augustine on contraception in the context of their age. It explains how this teaching flowed from their Christian faith and rejection of the surrounding culture. It rejects the thesis that Early Christians just took on Stoic ideas of sexuality and were completely negative toward sexuality

Contraception in the Early Church

An STL thesis that researches the early Christian church's understanding about contraception. It considers the Fathers of the Church through St. Augustine in the 5th century.

Issues of biopolitics of reproduction in post-war Greece

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2020

The Greek biopolitics of reproduction during the postwar period was determined by the demographic figures. Instead of a rise in births, Greece experienced a constant downward trajectory of the birth rate throughout the second half of the twentieth century. The country also witnessed population instability due to the massive immigration in the 1960s and the wave of repatriation in the next decade. The article explores the state's bio-politics in order to achieve demographic equilibrium by adopting a pronatalist perspective. The construction of biopolitics was influenced by the consecutive wars of the first half of the century resulting in the denial of any means suspected of reducing the birth rate, such as contraception and abortion. In parallel, the article investigates the attempts of a group of eugenicists to impose to the state authorities their own views on reproduction control. The key debates were birth control and abortion because these issues of reproduction were entangled with major social fermentations caused by urbanization, modernization, eugenics, and feminism. The Constitution of 1974 was instrumental in changing the biopolitics of reproduction by introducing equal rights to men and women. It provoked a series of legal transformations with regard to marriage, family, and reproduction.

"Abortion" and Ritual in Classical Athens

Female-only rituals may have served as a context for teaching and/or practicing contraception and fertility management in Athens during the Classical period, and perhaps also in Ancient Greece in general.