Theology of Marriage and the Family WSR-NR-D-TMR3
A natural marriage between man and woman is a community of love and life. Before society and the Church it assumes the character of an institution. The aim of the lecture is a presentation and analysis of the reality of married life as a natural vocation of human being to be realized between man and woman through human love and parenthood. the matrimonial union of the baptized takes on the form of a sacrament which makes the marriage and family firm and holy through love, unity and dissolubility.
Course contents:
1. Of human Love. Analysis of Benedict XVI's encyclical "Deus Caritas est"
2. Human Love. Conjugal Love
3. Protection of the value of marriage in the patristic epoch and at the Councils
4. The establishment of marriage
5. Marriage among the Hebrews, Greeks and Romans
6. Marriage in the first ages of Christianity
7. The place of matrimonial consent in the constitution of marriage
8. Matrimonial consent as a constitutive element the Sacrament of Matrimony
9. The matter, the form and the minister as constitutive elements of marriage
10.The community of love in relation to the institution of marriage
11.Attributes of marriage: indivisible unity and indissoluble community
12.Tradition of the Church on the unity and indissolubility of marriage: doctrine and practice. Application of the priviledge of St. Paul and "priviledge of faith"
13.Permanent and temporary separation of the spouses. Situation of Catholics after a civil divorce
14.The divorced who contracted new civil marriages. Trial marriages. Genuine free unions
15. Purposefulness or raison d'?tre of marriage. the double purpose of marriage
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