scholarly journals Marriage and family in view of the doctrine of the covenant

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakobus M. Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Gay Couples ◽  
Civil Unions ◽  
Post Modernism

New emerging paradigms in Western culture have produced a new ethic. Not only social ethics in general but the ethics of marriage and family life are changing rapidly. This new ethic has inter alia a strong bearing on marriage and family life, relationships explained by traditional Christian ethics. The traditional idea of heterosexual official marriages is challenged by new forms of civil relationships such as cohabitation, temporary relationships and civil unions between gay couples. Scholars even speak of the postmodernist marriage that, according to them, differs entirely from the traditional Christian idea of marriage. This article focuses on the concepts of marriage and family life against the background of the emerging postmodern and post-secular ethic and its consequences for the traditional view of marriage as a biblical institution. The central theoretical argument is that the concept of marriage in the biblical testimony should be defined and developed within the doctrine of the covenant and that such as view, with certain modifications, can still provide ethical directives and new perspectives on marital life for Christians today.Keywords: Marriage; Covenant; Post Modernism: Secular; Family

scholarly journals Christian ethical perspectives on marriage and family life in modern Western culture

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Vorster
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Clear Indication ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Marriage Contract

The past four decades witnessed a tremendous and wide-ranging change in family patterns in Western societies. Amongst these changes are phenomena such as growing number of divorces, births out-of-wedlock, and the absence of fathers because of globalisation, same-sex marriages and cohabitation of people without a marriage contract. Western societies are typified as “highdivorce societies”. Furthermore, in the United States the number of couples cohabiting has increased eightfold since 1970 and it is fair to conclude that the situation is similar in other Western societies. The purpose of the article is to deal with these patterns from a Reformed perspective. The central theoretical argument is that these developments can be perceived as a crisis in view of the Biblical perspectives on marriage and family life. However, the Biblical perspectives not only offer a clear indication of healthy marriage and family life entail, but also indicate that a Christian attitude in marriage and family life can serve as a remedy for the damage caused by the new trends.

The Synod on the Family

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Teaching

This chapter provides a case analysis of the Catholic Church’s Synod on the Family, an assembly of bishops convened in Rome in October 2014 and October 2015, to address the changing nature of Catholics’ lived experiences of marriage and family life. The chapter argues that the Synod can be considered a postsecular event owing to its deft negotiation of the mutual relevance of doctrinal ideas and Catholic secular realities. It shows how its extensive pre-Synod empirical surveys of Catholics worldwide, its language-group dialogical structure, and the content and outcomes of its deliberations, by and large, met postsecular expectations, despite impediments posed by clericalism and doctrinal politics. The chapter traces the Synod’s deliberations, and shows how it managed to forge a more inclusive understanding of divorced and remarried Catholics, even as it reaffirmed Church teaching on marriage and also set aside a more inclusive recognition of same-sex relationships.

Contemporary Applications

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Spiritual Disciplines

This chapter examines how the Christian virtue of humility is applicable to issues in personal and social ethics. It demonstrates several ways in which humility can be robustly action-guiding. The chapter also explores some of the ways in which humility is relevant to many of the classic spiritual disciplines, such as prayer, fasting, solitude, silence, and service. Next, it considers humility’s relevance to issues concerning religious pluralism and tolerance. It concludes with a discussion of the variety of ways in which humility is essential for a flourishing family life and its status as a virtue in the context of sport.

Marriage and Family Life in Ugaritic Literature

1955 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Marvin Pope ◽  
A. van Selms
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Marriage And Family

“Advanced Marriage Technique”: Sex as a Perfectible Skill in Mid-twentieth-century American Marriage Manuals

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-482
Author(s):  
Matthew Lavine
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Advice Literature ◽  
The Stability

While earlier marital advice literature treated sexual intercourse as a matter of conditioned instinct, marriage manuals in the mid-twentieth century portrayed it as a skill, and one that was rarely cultivated adequately. The didactic, quantified, objectively examined and rule-bound approach to sex promulgated by these manuals parallels other ways in which Americans subjected their personal and intimate lives to the tutelage of experts. Anxieties about the stability of marriage and family life were both heightened and salved by the authoritative tone of scientific authority used in these books.

Survey of African Marriage and Family Life

1953 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
E. R. Leach ◽  
Arthur Phillips ◽  
L. P. Mair ◽  
Lyndon Harries
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Marriage And Family

scholarly journals 關係契約視野下的婚姻家庭

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Dan HAN
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Relational Contract ◽  
Digital Commons

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.According to relational contract theory, the parties in a marriage and family should not only respect the independence and autonomy of the parties, but also shape the unity of the parties. This constitutes a paradox of modern marriage and family. Contractual intimacy can be expressed in many forms, and can even be expressed freely without form. However, the phenomena of marriage and family life are by no means merely contracts of relations; they are just as much about ideas as about facts.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 69 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

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