Review article
LIFE IN OPEN RELATIONSHIPS AND TRIAL MARRIAGES – CHRISTIANS IN CIVIL MARRIAGES
Alajzije Čondić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Zagreb
Abstract
At a time when marriage and family as the 'fundamental institutions of existence in every society' are threatened, it is needless to ask ourselves whether the modern civilization is in contradiction. It is more appropriate to seek the way how to get out of it. The author endeavors to describe the circumstances and to refer to the consequences arising from living in irregular relationships subsequent to disparagement of marriage and family. By means of theological and pastoral judgment he first and foremost illustrates how the cultural changes reflect on the institution of marriage and family. Thereafter he addresses the emergence of different forms of open relationships in the society, the indispensability of adequate knowledge about the institution of marriage, the gradual contestation of marriage in the social environment and the creation of an unnatural cultural atmosphere, which is especially contributed to by the ideology of gender. The author presents the attitude of the Church’s Magisterium about open relationships. He portrays the frequent fact of living in a “trial” marriage and the commitment of the Christians to the civil marriage. In the end of the article he discusses the inappropriateness of approval of open relationships.
Keywords
marriage; family; open relationships; same-sex relationships; person; nature; society
Hrčak ID:
35041
URI
Publication date:
30.1.2009.
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