Jovinian ( lat. Iovinianus , d. 405 ) - a free-thinking monk who lived in Rome at the end of the IV century .
According to his teaching, virginity, widowhood and marriage are equally pleasing to God; those who are reborn in baptism may be sinless; fasting and grateful use of food have the same moral dignity; all saved will enjoy the same future reward.
According to Augustine , he claimed that all sins are the same and that when Christ was born, Virgin Mary ceased (bodily) to be a virgin.
Jovinian was excommunicated by the bishop of Syria and heavily attacked by St. Ambrose , blessed Jerome and Augustine.
Jovinian was impeccable morality and lived a real ascetic.
The followers of Jovinian are Jovinianists; Aurelius Augustine wrote about them in a book of lat. "De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum Liber Unus" [1] ("Heresies, by the mercy of God, in one book").
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- Jovinian // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Jerome. “Two Books Against Jovinian”
- Hieronymus. Adversus Jovinianum Libri Duo.