Sentences with phrase «christian marriage traditions»

It develops a Christian marriage theology that takes seriously both the Christian marriage traditions and the difficult challenges facing marriage today.

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When Obama invoked Jesus to support same - sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.

They are ancient, authentic, and as fundamental to the Christian tradition as heterosexual marriage.»

The latest book in a series of which he is general editor offers a reflection on sex, marriage, and Christian love that appeals for solid grounding in the Bible and a tradition of moderate Calvinism.

Sullivan has written elsewhere and at length on his disagreement with the Christian tradition, and Catholic teaching in particular, with respect to the licitness of homosexual acts, and is perhaps today's foremost proponent of same - sex «marriage.»

Here we find the endeavor to speak of the Kingdom of God in a Christian language even while refusing the language of the Christian theological tradition, and to do so in the spirit of Blake's marriage of «Heaven» and «Hell» and under the influence of the identification of nirvana and samsara in Mahayana Buddhism.

Participants in this retreat will take up philosophical, theological, and literary texts from antiquity and the classical Christian and Jewish traditions to explore the nature of love and friendship as well as their relation to transcendence, faith, beauty, marriage, and reason.

By excising the requirement that Christian marriage be a «a lifelong union between a man and a woman,» along with the Augustinian tradition's second good of marriage, offspring, from the list of «purposes for which it was instituted by God,» marriage would be defined as open to same - sex couples whose sexual unions are not biologically fruitful.

This is a collaborative view of marriage based on Christian theology and tradition that serves as a faithful and prophetic alternative to patriarchal practices within marriage.

Indeed, I'm trying to remember when I last encountered an argument for changing the church's historic view of marriage that engaged so flippantly and superficially with the Christian tradition.

However, because of the premium placed on descendants of the «children of Abraham» in the Jewish tradition, marriage was normative for most Christians, and women were expected to bear children.

Marriage may be a «Christian» tradition, but it is the only way to be recognized as a couple, the same way as a man and woman would be.

The Christian traditions to which the authors appeal are primarily Catholic and Calvinist, traditions that respectively view marriage as sacrament or covenant.

For the Christian tradition claims that marriage helps to support an inclusive community of love by grounding it in a pattern of faithfulness toward another.

Most Christians do not accept Mormons as one of them because of their different traditions and religious habbits, much like the Mormon Church refuses to recognize the FLDS and their child brides and multiple marriages as one of them.

Applying this to the issue of homosexuality, there is a near - unanimous tradition that the only two possible Christian vocations with regard to our sexuality are marriage and celibacy.

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These fundamentals have been incorporated into just about all Judeo - Christian religious perspectives on marriage, and are consonant with those in many other religious traditions as well.