Relationships And Families Flashcards
Role and purpose of families
- 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
Importance and purpose of marriage
- 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
The different Christian marriage services
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
Same sex marriage
- 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
Civil partnerships
- legal on the 21 December 2005
Premarital sex and cohabitation
- many Christians believe it is wrong
- c of e except that cohabitation, for many people, is a step towards commitment
Celibacy
- 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”
Contraception
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
Abstinence
No sex before marriage
Divorced, annulment and remarriage
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