council · 340 · Gangra
The synod of Gangra in Paphlagonia answered the followers of Eustathius of Sebaste, whose zeal condemned marriage itself. Its canons — received into the universal canon corpus — drew the line that would govern monasticism: renunciation is honourable, but the creation is good.
The Synod of Gangra was a council of the Christian church held in the fourth century, at Gangra. The exact date is contested, but is generally agreed to be the year 340.
Eustathius' radical ascetics: condemning marriage, property, and the ordinary life of the church.
Twenty canons anathematizing the contempt of marriage, of meat, of wealth rightly used — asceticism ordered under the church, not against it.