REFLECTIONS ON THE DOCUMENT “THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE AND ITS IMPEDIMENTS”

 Public Orthodoxy
by Rev. Dr. Patrick Viscuso, Perry T. Hamalis, David Heith-Stade, Rev. Dr. Chrysostom Nassis, Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel, and Christos Tsironis

According to the theological vision of the Church, the bond of love is to be found at the core of marital life. Marriage is viewed within the framework of love, which is the core “quality” of the Church’s theological anthropology.

MODERN CHALLENGES TO TRADITIONAL ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVES ON MARRIAGE

by Paul Ladouceur,

(This essay was originally delivered as a public talk at the June 2015 Fordham/OTSA conference on the upcoming Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church. It was part of a panel on canonical impediments to marriage.)

It will no doubt be useful for the Council to focus on harmonizing canonical impediments to marriage – especially marriages where one spouse is not Orthodox. But the Council risks not seeing the forest because of the trees. Other questions relating to marriage in the contemporary world are far more important.

ΤΟ ΜΥΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ ΤΟΥ ΓΑΜΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΚΩΛΥΜΑΤΑ ΑΥΤΟΥ

 Ι. Ὁ Ὀρθόδοξος Γάμος

Ὁ θεσμός τῆς οἰκογενείας εὑρίσκεται σήμερον ὑπό τήν ἀπειλήν τῆς ἐκκοσμικεύσεως, ὡς ἐπίσης καί τοῦ ἠθικοῦ σχετικισμοῦ. Ἡ Ὀρθόδοξος Ἐκκλησία διδάσκει τήν ἱερότητα τοῦ γάμου ὡς μίαν θεμελιώδη καί ἀδιαμφισβήτητον διδασκαλίαν τῆς Ἐκκλησίας. Ἡ ἐλευθέρα ἕνωσις μεταξύ ἀνδρός καί γυναικός εἶναι μία ἀπαραίτητος προϋπόθεσις.