Wikipedia's article on polygamy in Christianity, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on polygamy in Christianity, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for Tertullian's late second century "singly" argument, the pastoral epistles' husband-of-one-wife requirement for church leaders, the Council of Trent's 1545 to 1563 condemnation of polygamy, and Martin Luther's 1521 departure from the consensus and his 1539 approval of Philip of Hesse's second marriage.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy_in_Christianity
Source Typereference
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