Excerpt from What Christianity Says About Sex, Love, and Marriage But recurrent Christian groups, committed to the continuance of revelation, did not exclude the pos sibility of new divine authorizations. This was the basis on which the Anabaptists at Muenster re vived polygamy. For the most part, however, the patriarchs were revered but not imitated by the church. And not uncommonly their derelictions were rendered innocuous through allegory.2 Save. Then, for occasional exceptions, the Christian church throughout her history has insisted on monogamy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.