Becoming Eunuchs for the Kingdom: What Gives?
In Matthew’s Gospel (19:12) Our Lord exhorts us to become ‘eunuchs’, which is not to be taken too literally, even if there are rumours the third-century theologian Origen did. And most certainly did Peter Abelard suffer that fate, by some ruffians hired by the uncle of his paramour Eloise, when his relationship with her went[…]