This sermon by the fourth century bishop of a town in Asia Minor purports to be on divorce, but really, it’s a lot more about marriage and the general awesomeness of wives and all women. (Note to the Fathers: Flattery will get you everywhere, including onto this podcast.)
I might never have read Asterius, but for the awesomeness that is tertullian.org.
28:00.
UPDATE: I’m turning off comments on this post. Not that I don’t love ya, you understand; but after several thousand spam comments, I’m getting tired of cleaning up spam every day.
[...] Over on my podcast, “On Divorce” by Asterius of Amasea turned out to be a paean to woman and a scolding to nasty ungrateful men (with pictures of good men and husbands also drawn as examples). Besides that, though, Father Livius’ book, and specifically that chapter on “The Second Eve” image in patristic writing, is turning out to have all kinds of anti-sexist comments in it. [...]