Living Together and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
General editor’s preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 14
PART 1 Living together as a theological problem......Page 15
CHAPTER 1 A guide to living together......Page 17
COHABITATION: SOME FEATURES......Page 18
COHABITATION: SOME CONSEQUENCES......Page 34
COHABITATION: SOME EXPLANATIONS......Page 42
COHABITATION: AT LAST SOME GOOD NEWS......Page 50
Living together: a preliminary theological analysis......Page 53
CHAPTER 3 Testing the betrothal solution......Page 90
The Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod)......Page 91
The United Church of Christ (1977)......Page 98
The Presbyterian Church (USA)......Page 99
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1993)......Page 101
The Episcopal Church, Diocese of Newark (1987)......Page 106
PREPARING FOR THE BETROTHAL SOLUTION......Page 111
Issues in Human Sexuality (1991)......Page 112
Something to Celebrate (1995)......Page 115
Marriage (1999)......Page 121
Report on the Theology of Marriage (Church of Scotland) (1994)......Page 123
The Church and Human Sexuality (South Africa) (1995)......Page 127
PART 2 An exercise in retrieval: bringing back betrothal......Page 131
THE BETROTHAL OF MARY AND JOSEPH......Page 133
BETROTHAL IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES......Page 138
BETROTHAL IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE......Page 144
BETROTHAL MYSTICISM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT......Page 148
BETROTHAL IN EARLY CHRISTIAN HISTORY......Page 157
CHAPTER 5 Evidence from liturgy and law......Page 165
BETROTHAL IN THE WEST......Page 166
LITURGIES IN THE EAST......Page 170
CANON LAW......Page 175
AQUINAS AND SWINBURNE ON BETROTHAL......Page 183
Whatever happened to betrothal?......Page 196
PART 3 Extending the marital norm......Page 223
CHAPTER 7 Betrothal, consent and consummation......Page 225
BETROTHAL AND THE WAY OF HOLINESS......Page 226
CONSENT AND THE CONSORTIUM TOTIUS VITAE......Page 234
CONSUMMATION AND THE MARITALIS AFFECTIO......Page 240
A CATECHUMENATE FOR MARRIAGE?......Page 251
ENGAGEMENT OR BETROTHAL?......Page 258
BETROTHAL AND LIMINALITY......Page 267
THE SACRAMENTAL BEGINNING OF MARRIAGE......Page 274
ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG UNMARRIED ADULTS......Page 278
POSTMARRIED PEOPLE......Page 284
LESBIAN AND GAY PARTNERS......Page 287
The Introduction......Page 290
The Betrothal......Page 291
The Sign of Betrothal......Page 292
Bibliography......Page 294
Index......Page 309