Marriage And Family Flashcards
Catholic Truth Society quote
Marriage is the sacrament in which a baptised man and woman vow to belong to each other in a permanent, exclusive, sexual, partnership of loving, mutual care, concern and shared responsibility in the hope of having children and bringing up a family
Purpose of marriage
- celebrate their love
- foundation of family love
- building block for community life
- respect to God
- sex
Quote for making a new family
‘A man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh’- genesis 2:24
Quote for wives obeying husbands
‘Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wide as Christ is the head of the church’- Ephesians 5:2-25
Quote for couple bodies
‘The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife’- 1 Corinthians 7:4
Evangelical Protestant teachings on sex
- sex outside marriage is wrong
- adultery breaks marriage vows which are part of the sacrament
‘You shall not commit adultery’
‘Sex is an act of love and commitment and should only take place within a marriage’- Timothy 2:22 and Matthew 5:27-8
Church of England teaching on sex
- recognise that society has changed
- cohabitation is accepted as a trial marriage
- marriage is a gift to humans and is the ideal place to bring up a child
- best place for sexual relationship
- agape love
Roman Catholic teaching on sex
- ‘constitutes a grave sin’
- belongs to a permanent and exclusive sexual relationship
- cohabitation unacceptable
- ‘human love does not tolerate trial marriages’
- ‘be holy and completely free from sexual immortality’
‘ adultery ‘destroys the very idea of a family’
Different teachings in the bible on sex
- ‘you shall not commit adultery’ Exodus
- ‘your body is a temple of the holy experience’ Corinthians
- ‘be fruitful and multiply’ Genesis
Evangelical teachings on sex
- marriage is the only place for sex
- sex outside is wrong (NT)
- ‘do not commit adultery’
Liberal Christians teachings on sex
- accept pre marital sex
- part of loving relationship
- as long as there is no exploration
- Jesus said love mattered the most
Against pre marital sex
Sex is for procreation
Fornication is a sin
Promiscuity is wrong
Methodist teachings on sex
- ‘although all persons are sexual beings whether or not they are married, sexual relations are only clearly affirmed in the marriage bond’
- responsible contraception is needed
- every child should be born in only a healthy environment
Baptist teachings on sex
- upholds family planning
- birth contort to regulate amount of children is accepted
How does the church support family life (4)
Help children support disabled or elderly parents
Provides a place for families to go and be brought together (church on sundays)
Charity work is done like helping families in financial breakdown- offers debt advice
Offers relationship or marriage counselling
RCC on divorce
Married couples can separate but not divorce
If someone remarries/is in a relationship after separation it’s adultery and can’t do holy communion
Can be legally divorced bit they’re married in the eyes of the Church
Marriage is a sacrament
RCC quote on divorce
What God has joined man cannot separate
Til death do us part
Annulments
If a marriage is not valid and annulment can be granted- as if marriage never happened
12 reasons for annulment
One partner... Was forced to marry Was suffering from mental problems Never intended to keep vows Wasn't baptised Withheld info eg infertility
CofE views on divorce
- can be allowed if it’s a last resort
- can remarry
- Christians should forgive
- vicar doesn’t have to remarry people
Churches response to divorce
Marriage perpetration courses
Marriage guidance counselling
Prayer