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Mixed-Marriages in the Liturgical Catholic Church Tradition Cover

Mixed-Marriages in the Liturgical Catholic Church Tradition

Open Access
|Dec 2018

Abstract

The question of inter-confessional marriages concerns all the Churches and has become much more urgent because of the great mobility of contemporary man. The Christian wedding is seen as a sacrament of Christ by the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, while the Churches born from the Protestant Reformation do not take this sacramental view, although Luther considers the divine blessing on the institution useful. The advantage of a sacramental perspective lies in the fact that the spouses, by virtue of the sacrament of marriage, become capable of “being married” according to the quality of Christ’s paschal love for his Church. In this way, according to the author, other theological perspectives open up, for example the sequela Christi, the idea of the vocation to Christian marriage, the foundation of the bond of indissolubility-fidelity and the foundation of sexual union-fruitfulness.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2018-0031 | Journal eISSN: 2359-8107 | Journal ISSN: 2359-8093
Language: English, German
Page range: 412 - 425
Published on: Dec 28, 2018
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2018 Gianandrea Di Donna, published by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
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