It is an open secret that marriage is in crisis in the United
States and that the marriages of Catholics are not significantly
different from other marriages. In "Marriage and the Catholic
Church" Michael Lawler confronts the difficult questions in the
Catholic theology of marriage.
Lawler, among the leading Catholic voices on the theology of
marriage, does not shy away from the difficult questions, but
confronts them honestly, historically accurately, and pastorally.
He highlights a Catholic approach to premarital relationships, to
marriage, to divorce, and to remarriage. He examines the
relationship of marriage and sacrament, faith and sacrament,
friendship in marriage, divorce and remarriage, cohabitation,
family, interchurch marriages, and the changing models of marriage
in the Catholic tradition. The whole offers a fresh look at the
Catholic theology of marriage for a new millennium.
Chapter 1 looks at marriage as a sacrament. Chapter 2 then asks
what models of marriage function in the contemporary Catholic
Church. Chapter 3 considers what it takes to transform the social
reality of marriage into the Catholic sacrament and answers that it
takes personal faith. Lawler looks into the bonds or relationships
in marriage in Chapter 4. He offers an extended consideration of
divorce and remarriage in the Catholic Church in Chapter 5. In
Chapter 6 he offers theological and pastoral reflections on
interchurch marriage. He analyzes the Christian reality and value
of friendship and reflects on its contribution to the stability of
marriage in Chapter 7. Lawler inquires, in Chapter 8, whether
cohabitation could, again as in the past, be counted as a step in
the process of becoming married in the Catholic tradition. Finally
in Chapter 9 he seeks to construct a theology of Christian family
and reflects on what that theology, and the families rooted in it,
can contribute to American families in their present crisis.
Chapters are Marriage and the Sacrament of Marriage," "Catholic
Models of Marriage," "Faith and Sacrament in Christian Marriage,"
"On the Bonds of Marriage," "Divorce and Remarriage in the Catholic
Church," "Interchurch Marriages: Theological and Pastoral
Reflections," "Friendship and Marriage," "Cohabitation and Marriage
in the Catholic Church: A Proposal," and "Toward a Theology of
Christian Family."
"Michael G. Lawler, PhD, is the Amelia B. and Emil G. Graff
Chair in Catholic Theological Studies and Dean Emeritus of the
Graduate School at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He
directs the Center for Marriage and Family, whose studies of
marriage preparation, interchurch marriages, and the first five
years of marriage have gained international acclaim.""
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