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The Theology of Marriage - Personalism, Doctrine and Canon Law (Paperback)
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The Theology of Marriage - Personalism, Doctrine and Canon Law (Paperback)
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In The Theology of Marriage Cormac Burke has put together a
collection of his most innovative theological theses and analyses,
offering original insights and analyses that could help in
resolving many current debates on the theology of marriage. At the
same time his view goes beyond these debates. His writings are
marked by an extremely positive view of sexuality and marriage.
Ultimately he insists on the matrimonial vocation as a call to
holiness; and delineates the particular graces married couples
receive and the challenges they must face. A former civil lawyer, a
teacher of moral theology, and a specialist in marriage, Burke
found himself unexpectedly called in 1986 to be a judge of the
Roman Rota, the High Court of the Church. He began his work there
precisely at a moment when theologians and canonists alike found
themselves grappling with interpreting and finding the practical
application of new magisterial teachings on matrimony - teachings
that seemed to some to represent an almost total rupture with
tradition. Central and particularly controversial issues were the
new definition of marriage itself and of its ends, the
"personalist" way of expressing the nature of marital consent; and,
not least, the concept of the bonum coniugum, "the good of the
spouse", as a co-principal end of marriage. Msgr. Burke, well
attuned to John Paul II's personalist theology of marriage, sensed
the need to seek the roots of these apparently new concepts in the
Bible, in Tradition, and particularly in St. Augustine (in whom,
despite many modern impressions to the contrary, he sees the first
defender of the goodness of the marital covenant). The result over
the past twenty five years has been an impressive body of work in
theological as well as canonical reviews.
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