Mixed marriages
Subtitle: an Orthodox history
By: A.G. Roeber
Publisher: Saint Vladimir's Seminary Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Yonkers, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780881416312
Subjects: Doctrines; Marriage; Orthodox Eastern Church; Intermarriage; History; Doctrinal Theology
Description: Fr Roeber's excellent book offers a lucid and fascinating history of marriage and its relationship to the Church, the authority of the bishop, pastoral practice in relation to the administration of the Mysteries (how can a couple sharing in the sacrament of Orthodox marriage not be allowed thereafter to share in the Eucharist from which it flows?) and how that important, but often ill-defined term of oikonomia can address the issue of mixed marriage today. The study's strength is that it looks to the historical documentation of what happened in relation to mixed marriage in Orthodox past history, rather than following what is vaguely 'supposed' to have happened. Brilliantly and elegantly written, with a calm and surefooted perspective, it offers great interest for the specialist and layperson alike. This book will surely become a standard work on the subject. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining some terms : Marriage, church, mysteries, Oikonomia; title: Mixed marriages, memory, and current challenges; title: Judaic/Syriac and Roman marriage to the thirteenth century; title: Mixed marriages from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries; title: Mixed marriages in the pluralist world of the twenty-first century.