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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:

Part 1 (Published May 2022):

Special theme issue of our journal Marriage, Families & Spirituality

African, Latin American, and Asian Voices on Amoris Laetitia Vol. 28/1 (2022):

AL has always been met with a mixed reception, especially in the western societies where theological and pastoral discussions about marriage and sexuality were mostly conducted in “Roman” or “Western” terms.

This issue opens the horizon to other parts of the world – to continents, countries, cultures, and contexts in which the teaching of the church has found different resonances than the ones westerners are used to.

Part 2 (Published March 2024):

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.

See the Table of Contents

Marriage, Families & Spirituality, vol. 30/1 (2024)


special theme issue

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.

Editorial by Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi & Ray Temmerman (full text)

Articles:

Diane & Greg A. Ryan, Clare Watkins, Francesco Pesce, Daniel J. Olsen, Dorothea Sattler, Vimal Tirimanna, Ray Temmerman, Doral Hayes (click here to read the abstracts).

Testimonies:

Matthew E. Chen, David & Joyce Makumi

Commentaries:

Jochen Sautermeister: God’s Love Embraces Everyone: On the New Declaration Fiducia Supplicans by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

Todd A. Salzman & Michael G. Lawler: Dignitas Infinita: Anthropologically and Methodologically Consistent?

Book Reviews on Interchurch Marriage, Marriage in Antiquity, Cultural Issues, Human Dignity, and The Couple

If you wish to order a copy of this issue, write to intamsreview@intams.org, stating your full name, affiliation and postal address. Price of a copy: 25 euro + shipping costs.

INTAMS JOURNAL "Marriage, Families & Spirituality"

We are on the look out for book reviewers!

Every week we receive a number of recently published books for review. For many of them we can call on our existing database of loyal book reviewers. However, there are some for which we have not yet found a reviewer.

Are you interested in reading and reviewing one (or several) book(s) for our journal?

Download the list of titles that are available for reviewing. Send your choice of title(s) to intamsreview@intams.org and we will send you the book(s) for free.

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Interchurch Marriage and Ecumenism

Interchurch Marriage and Ecumenism

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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Challenges for the Church in the field of Marriage and Families

Challenges for the Church in the field of Marriage and Families

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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Pastoral Practices, Life Experience, and Moral Theology: Amoris laetitia Between New Opportunities and New Paths

Pastoral Practices, Life Experience, and Moral Theology: Amoris laetitia Between New Opportunities and New Paths

10/04/2023

Vol. 29/1 (2023)Special Theme Issue: International Conference on Moral Theology: Pastoral Practices, Life Experience, and Moral Theology: Amoris laetitia Between New Opportunities and New Paths. This issue publishes a number of lectures given at a conference in Rome, organized and led by the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for the Study of Marriage and the Family and the Gregorian University, under the guidance of Don Maurizio Chiodi, Professor Miguel Yañez, and the newly nominated rector of the John Paul II Institute, Professor Msgr. Philippe Bordeyne. It took place from 11 to 14 May 2022, and INTAMS was an interested participant. Read the Editorial See the Table of Contents and the summaries of the articles

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