Extramarital Sex Flashcards
Extramarital sex’s when a married person has sex with someone other than his or her spouse, or when a single person has sex with a married ?
Person.
Sex’s associated ? with married relationships in Christian thought, and marriage bonds a couple in a lifelong relationship.
Exclusively.
The Catholic Church holds that a valid marriage can’t dissolved, forbidding divorce between two baptised ? in a marriage that’s been ?, and it excludes from communion those who’ve been divorced and remarried.
Christians.
Consummated.
Since ? ?, there’s been an increase in the number of ?
Vatican II.
Annulments.
Protestant Churches permitted divorce in exceptional circumstances. The Church of ? still forbids divorce.
England.
The Christian Church began the process of gradually claiming ? over marriage.
Jurisdiction.
The New Testament allows remarriage after a spouse has been ?
Adulterous.
The Catholic Church came to view marriage’s a sacrament, and ? thinkers came to see it as a holy estate (a holy kind of relationship).
Protestant.
Lisa Sowle Cahill argues that Christianity’s stance against divorce originated in an attempt to limit men’s ability to manipulate marriage, women and children in the interests of power and ?
Wealth.
In this context, the Church’s ban on adultery made it impossible for men to have concubines, and the ban on divorce stopped men abandoning ?
Women.
The ? of marriage made marriage more just, particularly for women, curtailing extramarital sex and the consequent negative outcomes for women and children.
Christianisation.
The ? population’s reporting a more conservative attitude to some traditional aspects of sex and ethics, in particular around commitment and exclusivity in marriage - values that are central to Christian understandings of marriage.
UK.
Christian teaching maintains that marriage must be freely and willingly entered into. ? is also a key concern in contemporary society. Sexual offences such as rape and forced marriage are commonly viewed as wrong.
Consent.
