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,
- an reflexion on spousal sexual intimacy,
- 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.
Editorial by Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi (full text)
Articles:
T. Derrick Witherington, Christian Blumenthal/Cornelia Dockter/Judith Hahn & Klaus von Stosch, Tim Zeelen, Kevin Schembri & Carlo Calleja, Tanja Forderer, Christian Mignonat,
Notice: Marriage Care, UK: How Can we Be a Synodal Church in Mission?
Book Reviews: Theology of Marriage, Law and Marriage, The Family, Cultural Issues
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PUBLISHING PROJECT IN REPLY TO THE POPE'S CALL FOR A YEAR OF REFLECTION ON AMORIS LAETITIA
Thinking Globally and Responding Locally in the Church:
Common Ground and Diversities in the Reception of Amoris laetitia
In the past, the conversation around AL has been predominantly on “Roman”, European terms. INTAMS seeks to remedy that by starting a broader, worldwide conversation, through a two-part publishing project on Global Perspectives on Amoris laetitia, 2016-2024:
ARTIKEL
In gesprek met visies rond seksuele ethiek vanuit het kerkelijke leergezag. De spreidstand van Vlaamse katholieke theologen en ethici van de KU Leuven
De auteurs zijn/waren werkzaam aan de KU Leuven en doceren/doceerden vakken omtrent seksuele ethiek:
Roger Burggraeve
Ilse Cornu
Annemie Dillen
Nenad Polgar.
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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
Challenges for the Church in the field of Marriage and Families (2023/2)
24/01/2024
Marriage, Families & Spirituality, vol. 29/2 (2023). insightful contributions to the Challenges for the Church in the field of Marriage and Families. With Pope Francis a new spirit has emerged in the Catholic Church after a long period of deadlock and lethary. Retrieving the often neglected or even ignored seeds of Vatican II and settling essential issues which have not yet been addressed are some of his main tasks. Questions of ecclesiology, especially the concept and structure of the Church in its theological and practical applications, are certainly of prime importance. But items of marriage and sexuality are no less on the agenda. The articles of this issue, at first sight a compilation of loose papers, can be read in this context: they provide modest, but helpful, contributions to the challenges which the Church is facing. Read the Editorial See the Table of Contents and the summaries of the articles
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