Pauline privilege

English

Etymology

Drawn from the apostle Paul's instructions in the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

Proper noun

Pauline privilege

  1. A Christian doctrine, interpreted among Catholics and some Protestants as allowing the dissolution of a marriage between two non-baptized persons in the case that one (but not both) of the partners seeks baptism and converts to Christianity and the other partner leaves the marriage.
  • Petrine privilege
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