Sexual love Flashcards
Procreative meaning?
To reproduce - make babies
Marital meaning?
To do with marriage
Adultery meaning?
Sexual intercourse with someone who is not your spouse
Unitive meaning?
Something that joins or unites people
Agape meaning?
Love of God for men and men of God
Eros meaning?
Love mostly, sex and prison
Storge meaning?
Love and affection
Pope John II’s ‘Theology of the body’ - 3 key ideas
God loves every human for his/her own sake
The body and marital sex is good
Adultery is the breaking of a promise
Homosexuality meaning?
Sexual attraction or behaviour between members of the same sex
Catholic teaching on homosexuality?
Catholic Church believe that sex should be pro-creative.
Physical homosexual relations are not acceptable to them.
Marriage meaning?
The sacrament by which the couple commit themselves to each other for life.
Covenant meaning?
A solemn promise made by the couple before God to fulfil their wedding vowels.
Conditions for a valid catholic church?
Give consent
Be free to marry
Be marrying of their own free will
Consent meaning?
To give permission - “I take you to be my husband/wife.”
Null and void meaning?
The marriage did not take place; something was incorrect when the commitment happened.
