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vol. 31/2 (2025)

Marriage, Families & Spirituality
now fully and freely available in Open Access

Open Access makes our research and scholarly discourse on marriage, families and related topics instantly accessible to individuals, institutions, and libraries across the globe.

All our Back Issues are also available in Open Access since 1995. 

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Marriage, Families & Spirituality, vol. 31/2 (2025)

Editorial by Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi & Nenad Polgar

Articles:

Katharina Mairinger- Immisch: Moralisierung und mögliche Gegenstrategien: Eine kritischeAuseinandersetzung mit Körpervielfalt und intergeschlechtlichen
Menschen aus theologisch-ethischer Perspektive 
Bram Schreurs:  The Question of Marriage in Intersex Theologies 
Stephan Goertz Trans Does (Not) Matter! Zur Frage der Bedeutsamkeit von Geschlechtsidentität 
Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi & Kevin Schembri: Implementing Chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia throughout the World: A Critical Reading of Episcopal Pastoral Guidelines 
Christian Thiry: Jésus et l’adultère d’une nouvelle union après divorce: Pour une nouvelle traduction de Matthieu 5,32 et Luc 16,18
Jeltje Gordon-Lennox: Ritual as Strategy for Coping with Separation and Divorce
Notices:
Andreas Lob-Hüdepohl: Blessings Give Love Strength: A Handbook of Blessings Published by the German Bishops’ Conference and Central Committee of German Catholics

Book reviews

- LGBTQIA+ issues

- Moral Theology

- Divorce

- Pastoral Care

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INTAMS JOURNAL "Marriage, Families & Spirituality"

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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.

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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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Marriage, Families & Spirituality, vol. 30/2 (2024)

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

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