Sentences with phrase «marital fidelity»

But their avoidance of divorce can show up not just in a commitment to marital fidelity in their own lives, but also in a refusal to marry at all.

But across all cultures marriage seeks to establish a permanent bond that promotes marital fidelity, not least for the raising of children.

Religious traditions also supply family - specific norms, like the importance of marital fidelity, as well as more generic norms, such as the Golden Rule.

One wonders how much longer such a healthy tradition can be maintained before it is condemned by the local Anglican vicar as an archaic remnant of a society that discriminated between marital fidelity and fornication.

Perhaps they should rebel not against marital fidelity, but against filial parsimony.

It's like asking John Edwards to write a book on marital fidelity.

Sexual looseness is repeatedly condemned; husbands are urged to love their wives; marital fidelity even when «unequally yoked together with unbelievers» (K.J.V.) is counseled though warnings are given against assuming voluntarily such a relationship (I Cor.

This negative assertion therefore stands against all attempts to argue for the autonomous or intrinsic legitimacy of any «life style» and against those who condemn homosexuality from the standpoint of an assumed righteousness of heterosexual marital fidelity or those who, condemning the obvious hypocrisies and oppressions ingredient to the institution of marriage, claim the autonomous validity of a homosexual life style.

I think that Beryl was shaped by the surprisingly loose attitudes towards marital fidelity in the Kenya colonial society.

In ancient Greek tradition, for instance, carnation represented symbols of love while ivy embodied marital fidelity in middle ages.

But no woman, alpha or beta, seems able to escape the atavistic preference of men both alpha and beta for ladylike and virginal wives (the Darwinist explanation is that those traits are predictors of marital fidelity, assuring men that the offspring that their spouses bear are theirs, too).

On the other hand, Rabbit stands strangely justified in his inability to find a middle path between resignation to blighted hopes and the quest for a more intense life, between marital fidelity and sexual vitality.

The Torah and Jesus himself ground sexual and marital fidelity in the creation design.

People are intimidated and confused; it becomes ever more difficult to articulate confidently the reasons why men and women are made for each other, and for children in marital fidelity.

Within my view, then, «marital fidelity» is a minor doctrinal issue to the church; but can be a major issue to the couple.

Their communities include married people whose pledge to chastity is understood as a commitment to marital fidelity.

Advocates of marriage, heterosexual or gay, would both have to agree that bisexual orientation must be repressed in the interests of marital fidelity.

The Old Testament often uses sexual imagery to describe how well or how poorly we are living our relationship to God (marital fidelity, nuptial joy, fertility, harlotry, sexual defilement, and childlessness).

That was no longer the case when Latimer himself, inexplicably, given the reality, made the issue of his marital fidelity a campaign issue (see, Hart, Gary).

The most surprising theme in «Billions» might be marital fidelity: Axelrod adores his wife, Lara (a ferociously protective Malin Akerman), and rejects offers to hop into bed with other women.