Close to our hearts
Subtitle: personal reflections on marriage
By: edited by Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn and Klaus Demmer
Series: Symposion : Anstösse zur interdisziplinären Verständigung = Towards an interdisciplinary understanding -- Band/volume 12; Symposion (Lit (Firm)) -- 12.
Publisher: Lit
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9783643903396
Subjects: Marriage; History; Philosophy; Religious aspects
Description: Does taking a lifelong vow of marriage still make sense today? The 24 contributors to this book - all internationally recognized specialists in marriage - show, from a variety of perspectives, that it remains profoundly meaningful to understand marriage as a shared path that leads to maturity. Not only do the authors present fundamental theological and philosophical ideas from the past 2,500 years, but they also speak about their own personal experiences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn; title: Sacramental marriage : a testimony of faith in a secular world  -- Klaus Demmer -- Theological focal points.; title: The Christian family as "domestic church"  -- Godfried Cardinal Danneels; title: Living marriage and "doing" the trinity  -- Gisbert Greshake; title: Loving one's partner as God loves God  -- Adrian Thatcher; title: The seriousness of marriage  -- Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi; title: Love and patience : sacramental fragments  -- Herwi Rikhof -- Anthropology of marriage.; title: Strangers in communion : reflecting on Christian marriage  -- Enda McDonagh; title: The beloved remains the others : a meditation on eros  -- Ulrich Dickmann; title: Marriage, a sacrament for the road  -- Isabelle and Alain de Layre; title: The grace of being two : how marriage makes you more like God  -- David Dawson Vásquez; title: The many fruitfulnesses of conjugal love  -- Giulia Paola Di Nicola and Attilo Danese -- Paths to maturity in marriage.; title: Crisis in a couple : how can one salvage a relationship?  -- Carlo Rocchetta; title: A gift for life  -- Ilse Cornu; title: Marriage : mystery within the mundane  -- Annette Barker; title: Time and marriage  -- Alfons Vansteenwegen; title: The art of growing old : paths to the inner acceptance of the inexorable process of aging  -- Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhahn -- Biographical perspectives and experiences.; title: Christian marriage  -- Jack Dominian; title: The theological value of the married priesthood  -- Basilio Petrà; title: The essential necessity of stickability  -- Elizabeth Davies; title: Married life : a "revolutionary road"?  -- Elvira Roncalli and John Ries; title: John Henry Newman on marriage and family life as a school of love  -- Donna Orsuto; title: Epilogue -- Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini.