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St. Augustine: a View on Marriage and Sexuality in today's World

webmaster — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:04:03 +0000

What 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)

webmaster — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:37:03 +0000

A 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)

webmaster — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:18:26 +0000

Marriage: 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)

webmaster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:20:44 +0000

St. 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.

The Sacramentality of Marriage: theological reflections (Annales Theologici 7 (1993), 47-69)

webmaster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:20:07 +0000

Summary: Sacramentality: an element or property of marriage? - Baptism: the basis for the sacramentality of marriage - The rite of sacramental marriage - Ministers and recipients - The intention required - The intention of doing what the Church does/intends - The importance of faith - Faith and fruit - The 1977 documents of the International Theological Commission - Separability - Conclusion

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Marriage as a Sacrament of Sanctification (Annales Theologici 9 (1995), 71-87)

webmaster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:19:23 +0000

A strong case can be made for holding that Chapter Five of Lumen Gentium presents the most important and innovative, and even the most revolutionary doctrine of the Second Vatican Council. Under the title of "The Universal Call to Holiness", a totally personalized message is presented to each member of the Church. Each in effect, whatever his or her position in life, is called to sanctity, to the fullness of friendship and intimacy with God. To help each one become truly aware of what this implies and to help each to see and use the ways and means of responding effectively to this personal call from God, remains a top priority in the ongoing work of ecclesial renewal.