Marriage in the Western Church : the Christianization of marriage during the patristic and early medieval periods /

Marriage in the Western Church : the Christianization of marriage during the patristic and early medieval periods /

Marriage in the Western Church examines how marriage acquired a specifically Christian identity in the Western Church from the patristic through Carolingian periods. It shows how theologians came to regard marriage as an ecclesiastical institution and how they developed a Christian theology of marri...

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Main Author: Reynolds, Philip Lyndon, 1950-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.

Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 24.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.

Subjects:

Marriage > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.

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Call Number: BV835 .R485 1994

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • ROMAN LAW: THE FORMATION AND NATURE OF MARRIAGE
  • ROMAN LAW: THE DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
  • GERMANIC LAW: BETROTHAL AND DIVORCE
  • GERMANIC LAW: IRREGULAR AND INFORMAL MARRIAGE
  • LEX DIVINA: THE DISTINCTION
  • LEX DIVINA: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
  • THE IMPEDIMENT OF INEQUALITY
  • THE MATTHEAN EXCEPTION IN THE FATHERS
  • THE MATTHEAN EXCEPTION AND THE DOCTRINE OF INDISSOLUBILITY
  • SEPARATING TO SERVE GOD
  • AUGUSTINE ON MARRIAGE AS SPIRITUAL UNION
  • AUGUSTINE ON MARRIAGE AS A REMEDY
  • AUGUSTINE ON THE SACRAMENT IN MARRIAGE
  • BETROTHAL
  • CONSUMMATION
  • BENEDICTION
  • MARRYING IN THE FRANKISH CHURCH
  • FROM CONSORTIUM OMNIS VITAE TO SACRAMENTUM MAGNUM
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE.