Relationships And Families Flashcards

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Role and purpose of families

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  • God has provided families to develop loving and respectful relationships
  • model family: mother father and children
  • nurture, disciplining, respect, honour, hospitality
  • should remain faithful to family
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Importance and purpose of marriage

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  • teaches marriage should be only between a man and a woman
  • marriage should reflect Christ’s love for the church
  • purpose: nurture children, sexual relations, help and comfort
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The different Christian marriage services

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Catholic and orthodox marriage services:

  • sacrament, indissoluble
  • both baptised, 1 Catholic
  • brings gods grace in unique way (helps to be faithful and good parents)

Church of England marriage services:

  • adds a spiritual dimension to the marriage as God is included
  • Bring a blessing into a couples life
  • don’t have to be baptised or Christian

Non- conformist marriage services:

  • Quaker stresses that the union is made between a couple and God
  • can write their own vows emphasising what the couple issaying to God
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Same sex marriage

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  • became legal in England and Wales in March 2014 to convert civil partnerships to marriage
  • both churches do not carry out same-sex marriages and vicars are not allowed to enter into same-sex marriages
  • episcopal church allows same sex marriage
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Civil partnerships

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  • legal on the 21 December 2005
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Premarital sex and cohabitation

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  • many Christians believe it is wrong

- c of e except that cohabitation, for many people, is a step towards commitment

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Celibacy

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  • some Christians choose to remain unmarried and to abstain permanently from sex
  • Catholic Church: priests, monks, nuns are required to be celibate
    “Neither the sexually immoral… Will inherit the kingdom of God”
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Contraception

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Catholic Church teaches artificial contraception is sinful because God gave sex to humans for reproduction but it accepts natural forms of contraception

C of E teaches it is responsible to use contraception in order to ensure that children are planned and wanted

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Abstinence

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No sex before marriage

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Divorced, annulment and remarriage

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Catholic Church:

  • teachers marriage is permanent and indissoluble and does not accept divorce because it is simply breaking the legal agreement but not the holy one made with God
  • does not allow remarriage as it is adulterous
  • except annulments if either person had been forced into the marriage without their consent and the individuals are free to marry someone

Church of England:
- believes couples should work hard keep their vowels but allows divorce and people are free to remarry someone else but if they want to remarry in a church then it is up to the parish priest

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