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Marriage, Families & Spirituality
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Marriage, Families & Spirituality, vol. 31/1 (2025)
Editorial by Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi
Articles:
Vimal Tirimanna: The Traditional Catholic Bias Against Human Sexuality: A Brief Historical Survey
Michael G. Lawler & Todd A. Salzman: Magisterial and Theological Uses of Science: Tensions in Sexual
Anthropology
Alain Mattheeuws: Un monde relationnel d’opposition ou de don mutuel?
Maria Cruciani: L’amore degli sposi da immagine a inabitazione della Trinità: cosa cambia nella spiritualità coniugale?
Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi: Implementing the Marriage Theology of Vatican II: On an Important Desideratum
Notices:
Francesco Pesce: We Are Made Up of Relationships: 50 Years of Italian Centro della Famiglia
Book Reviews
on Theology of Marriage, The bible and Gender, History & Sexuality, Cultural Issues, Sociology & Psychology, Church & Theology
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Thomas KNIEPS-PORT LE ROI / Shaji KOCHUTHARA / David DAWSON VASQUEZ (eds.): Thinking Globally and Responding Locally in the Church: Common Ground and Diversities in the Reception of Amoris Laetitia (INTAMS Studies on Marriage and Family, vol. 4), Münster: LIT, 2024.
How has Pope Francis’s groundbreaking document on marriage and family, Amoris Laetitia, been implemented in Africa? In Asia? In Latin America? In this volume, scholars from across these regions reflect on their experiences, correcting the overly western focus of most reactions to AL. The contributions look at local issues like polygamy in Africa, as well as more global issues in a local context, like feminism in Indonesia and synodality in Colombia. The reader will find that concerns about marriage and family can be similar throughout the world or specific to different contexts. As a whole, the book contributes to a more diverse and revisited catholic understanding of marriage and family.
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22/06/2025
Marriage, Families & Spirituality is now fully and freely available in Open Access.
Marriage, Families & Spirituality, vol. 30/2 (2024)
10/02/2025
Marriage, Families & Spirituality Vol. 30/2 (2024) This issue treats various topics: an analysis of blessings for same-sex couples, the question of marriage as a vocation, the application of Ephesians 5 to marriage, and reflections on various conflicting understandings of indissolubility. We have also included a short reflection on friendship in Thomas Aquinas and a notice summarizing the synodal reflections of Marriage Care in England and Wales. Read the Editorial (full text) See the Table of Contents and the summaries of the articles
Interchurch Marriage and Ecumenism (2024/1)
10/06/2024
Marriage, Families & Spirituality, vol. 30/1 (2024). Interchurch Marriage and Ecumenism. Are differences of faith, like that between a Catholic and another Christian, insuperable obstacles to marital union? This has long been argued. Today, however, cross-denominational couples are very common. We find that two people from different Christian denominations, each committed to their own tradition, can forge a productive marriage. The articles in this issue argue that these interchurch marriages can not only be good for the couple but can also be helpful in the ecumenical quest for Christian unity. The authors explore perceptions, legislation, and possibilities presented by these couples. In our pluralistic societies, the church would do well to turn to the resources these couples can bring to prolonging a unified Christian witness to the world. Read the Editorial by Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi & Ray Temmerman (full text) See the Table of Contents and the summaries of the articles
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