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 / / by Philip Lyndon Reynolds.

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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Superior document:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 24
VerfasserIn:
Reynolds, Philip Lyndon, 1950-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, New York, [New York] ;, Koln, [Germany] : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
©1994
Year of Publication:1994
Language:English
Series:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; Volume 24.
Physical Description:1 online resource (468 pages).
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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.

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