Sentences with phrase «understanding of the marriage»

The Christian understanding of marriage rests upon a whole complex of other doctrines, from creation to Christology to anthropology to eschatology.

But what is the reason for those who propose to ditch the conjugal understanding of marriage and replace it with a conception of marriage as sexual - romantic domestic partnership (what one opponent of the conjugal conception describes as your relationship «with your Number One Person»)?

Culture evolves and so will your understanding of marriage (eventually).

It was the accepted, traditional understanding of marriage at the time.

In the early centuries, in the High Middle Ages, and again at the time of the Reformation, Christians were compelled to rethink and reformulate their understanding of marriage and the family.

At the end of the twentieth century, the question is whether Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics can believably set forth a distinctively Christian understanding of marriage.

A couple of months ago, the magazine's managing editor, Jason Steorts, argued more overtly against the «traditionalist» understanding of marriage as between a man and a woman.

The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has declared the traditional understanding of marriage anathema, and left wide open many vexing questions about the standing of individuals, groups, and institutions who continue to uphold that understanding.

I have no problem with the state redefining marriage in order to achieve its goal; how the state defines marriage does not have an impact on our understanding of marriage as Christians.

Today, tens of thousands of religious organizations, and tens of millions of Americans, continue to believe and teach that the proper understanding of marriage is a union of one man and one woman.

Others, regarding this issue as one of justice, would offer an expanded understanding of marriage that opens it civilly and sacramentally to same - sex couples.

They may not have much human understanding of marriage as each may have grown up with parents who have divorced or never married, and many of their friends and acquaintances will have that experience too.

The regulatory state and ubiquitous new global media throw their ever increasing weight behind the new understanding of marriage and its implicit anthropology, which treats our bodies as raw material to be used as we see fit.

While no doubt motivated by genuine compassion, the influential German cleric's suggestion would have far - reaching and destructive ramifications for the Church's understanding of marriage and for the common good of society.

Moked, a leading portal for Italian Jews, praises recent statements by Benedict XVI and Paris» chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, in defense of the traditional understanding of marriage.

Representatives from liberal church groups in the USA have responded to the Nashville Statement, a document affirming the traditional understanding of marriage and sexuality.

Christians should clarify their own understanding of marriage.

This is the insight (perhaps often unconsciously known) that is behind the common Christian understanding of marriage as in some real sense sacramental.

In his remarks, the cardinal wisely noted that «the best ally» for the Church's settled understanding of marriage and the family is human nature: «The concept of human nature is debated and contested, but, nevertheless, human nature exists....

We have further affirmed that the only true and possible understanding of marriage is as the permanent bond between a man and a woman — a truth that has been acknowledged for millennia across innumerably diverse cultures.

The Bible alone, however, does not have to be used to demonstrate this understanding of marriage.

The blog goes on to say that in the Church's schools, the subject will be «rooted in the teachings of the Church», including «the importance of trust, loyalty, fidelity and the Christian understanding of marriage as the context for sexual relationships, as well as the understanding of abstinence and celibacy as positive life choices».

What is this unique understanding of marriage that Christianity brings to the table?

Editor: The case for a traditional understanding of marriage has faced several reversals in the courts and parliaments of the West in recent years.

We may strive for a biblical understanding of marriage, but it's clear that we're not all that sure what marriage should look like.

Just as the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930 undermined a key part of the conceptual framework that made potentially fruitful heterosexual intercourse the only acceptable kind of sex, so the gradual degradation in the popular understanding of marriage makes it very difficult for many people to conceptualise the Catholic argument against gay marriage.

As Reilly observes, summarizing Aristotle's understanding of marriage, «the family is the prepolitical institution.

We are now several generations into a grand pan-societal experiment that seeks to eviscerate a traditional understanding of marriage and family from our law and culture.

How then, within a truly Christian understanding of marriage as a call of love and as a vocation to sanctity, should married persons treat the presence of concupiscence - that self - absorbed element present in their intimate union?

Speaking in response to the Scottish Episcopal Church's decision to allow gay marriages, a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland told the Belfast Telegraph: «Many people in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland will be deeply saddened at this week's developments in Scotland, which seems so obviously at variance with the traditional biblical understanding of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

To seek union with the other in obedience to Christ's call to loyalty - that is the heart of the Christian understanding of marriage.

«There is a need to grasp again, refresh and deepen the Church's understanding of marriage as a sacrament.

The interpersonal criterion certainly reflects the dominant understanding of marriage in our culture, but I am not accepting that meaning of marriage as my own.

The traditional understanding of marriage is being redefined in legislatures around the world.

If there is an inherent «right to marriage» for same - sex couples, religious groups that refuse to marry gay couples are violating their civil rights, which in turn could lead to a repeal of the churches» tax exempt status» or a complete overturn in our law and culture of the religious understanding of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Having recognised the value of marriage, in the subsequent paragraphs (48 - 52) it expands upon the Church's understanding of marriage:

Despite the increasing divergence between secular and biblical understandings of marriage, signs of this original plan of God are still evident in the world around us, e.g. the fact that living together before getting married increases rather than decreases the risk of divorce and the fact that marriage is the best place for bringing up children.

There are fundamental differences between the two regarding the nature and purpose of marriage, which in a secular society means, inevitably, that the state's understanding of marriage is going to prevail, and be enforced by coercive measures.

One response trades clarity for comfort; the other defends and promotes the Scriptural understanding of marriage and sexuality that has had the unwavering support of the Church since its foundation.

What are the basic biblical and theological issues involved in a contemporary understanding of marriage?

Missing from this, or perhaps purposely excised, is the Christian understanding of marriage as an institution established by God, a sacramental reality in the Church, ordered to the happiness and spiritual growth of the spouses and to the procreation of children for the good of society.

After a half mil years of an understanding of marriage, what makes this a prudent time for messin» with the lesson??

«Mr Cameron's speech reveals that his understanding of marriage and religion is woefully simplistic and ignorant.

Looking at marriage through the prism of religion, the core understanding of marriage is in many ways universal.

injury to the majoritarian understanding of marriage, one of society's fundamental categories, and 2).

Our understanding of marriage should be governed by autonomy because marriage is a private matter, not for the intrusion of the state.

«The Other Woman has always been fundamental to our understanding of marriage.

It may not be the only book you need to read, but if you want to dramatically change your understanding of marriage.

It was not until the 20th century that Americans evolved an understanding of marriage in which partners must meet all of each other's needs: sexual, emotional, material.

Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT), developed by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. of the Institute for Relationship Therapy, is a paradigm shift in the understanding of marriage and marital therapy.