English, Marriage - theological
St. Augustine: a View on Marriage and Sexuality in today's World
Tue, 02/15/2011 - 15:04 — webmasterWhat would be St. Augustine's reaction if he returned to the world at this start of the third millennium, and had to evaluate the modern attitude toward marriage and toward human sexuality?
I believe that (with surprise, or perhaps without it) he would identify two phenomena that he experienced in his own time (even if under somewhat different modulations); two attitudes that he combatted; two valuations, seemingly located at opposite poles, and nevertheless intimately related to each other.
Disesteem for marriage; exaltation of sex
A POSTSCRIPT TO THE "REMEDIUM CONCUPISCENTIAE" (The Thomist 70 (2006): 481-536)
Tue, 02/15/2011 - 11:37 — webmasterA POSTSCRIPT TO THE "REMEDIUM CONCUPISCENTIAE" (The Thomist 70 (2006): 481-536)
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I. CONCUPISCENCE AND MARRIAGE: THEOLOGICAL POSITIONS
II. CONCUPISCENCE AND MARRIED LOVE: A DEEPER ANALYSIS
III. MARRIED LOVE AND MARRIED CHASTITY
CONCLUSION
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Marriage: a personalist or an institutional understanding? (Communio 19 (1992), 278-304)
Mon, 11/29/2010 - 18:18 — webmasterMarriage: a personalist or an institutional understanding? (Communio 19 (1992), 278-304)
For a large part of this century, theologians, canonists and anthropologists have been engaged in a vigorous debate about the ends of marriage, and at times about its very nature. On the one hand was the traditional (often termed the "procreative" or "institutional") understanding, which presented the ends of matrimony in a clear hierarchical manner: a "primary" end (procreation) and two "secondary" ends (mutual help and the remedy for concupiscence). On the other hand, there had emerged a new view which, without necessarily denying the importance of procreation, wished at least equal standing to be given to other personalist values linking husband and wife: mutual love, the conjugal union in its spiritual and not just its physical aspect, etc.
St. Augustine and Conjugal Sexuality (Communio 1990-IV, 545-565)
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:20 — webmasterSt. Augustine and Conjugal Sexuality[1]
No one has ever questioned the extraordinary quality of St. Augustine's mind. Some, however, consider that mind to have been stained by a pessimistic streak, especially with regard to sexuality; and they feel that Augustine's subsequent influence - proportionate to the quality of his mind - has left the Church's thought burdened, right down to our days, with a negative and defective ethic on sexuality and marriage.
