Marriage: Human Reality and Saving Mystery
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Book
Authors
Category
Marriage
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Publication Year
1965
Publisher
Pages
416
Description
The publication of even a brief study of marriage by one of Roman Catholicism's leading theologians is, in itself, a significant event. The fact that Father Schillebeeckx plans a multi-volume, comprehensive treatment of marriage as "human reality and saving mystery" is even more significant, for marriage has been for too long an area left by the dogmatic theologians to canonists and moralists.
Father Schillebeeckx begins at what, for the religionist, is the only beginning: revelation, the content of what God has himself told us about marriage. Thus, in the first book of this two-volume edition, the author masterfully shows how the Bible sets up an interplay of two themes - each illuminating for modern marriage. The Jews, unlike many of their contemporaries, had an unromanticized, "unmythologized" view of marriage. But they also came to see in marriage - ordinary, everyday marriage - a sign of God's saving love, just as later the early Christians came to see in marriage a sacrament of Christ's redemptive love for his Church.
In the second volume, Father Schillebeeckx traces the history of this insight through the centuries of Christian thought and experience of marriage. Always interesting, this history can, at times, be quite surprising. The reader may be surprised to learn, for example, that the indissolubility of Christian marriage has been differently interpreted in East and West, and that the ecclesial celebration of marriage came comparatively late - and not quite by intention.
The volumes to come will deal with the cultural and psychological aspects of marriage and will grapple with some of the problems faced in modern Christian marriage. But such considerations are vainly dealt with unless there is, as a foundation, such a full historico-theological foundation as Father Schillebeeckx has provided in these two volumes.
Edward Schillebeeckx, OP, was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1914 and entered the Flemish Province of the Dominican Order in 1935. He received his Doctorate in Theology from "Le Saulchoire," Etoilles, France. For fourteen years he taught at Louvain both in the Dominican House of Studies and at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of the University. In 1958 he was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology, History of Theology, and Christian Anthropology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Professor Schillebeeckx also served as theological expert for the Dutch Bishops at the Second Vatican Council.
Editor-in-chief of two Dutch journals of theology, Father Schillebeeckx contributes frequently to many scholarly magazines in the fields of theology and philosophy in English, French and Dutch. He is the author of the monumental work Christ The Sacrament of the Encounter with God and of Mary, Mother of the Redemption.
Taken from the inside flaps.
Volume I: Marriage in the Old and New Testaments
Volume II: Marriage in the History of the Church
Father Schillebeeckx begins at what, for the religionist, is the only beginning: revelation, the content of what God has himself told us about marriage. Thus, in the first book of this two-volume edition, the author masterfully shows how the Bible sets up an interplay of two themes - each illuminating for modern marriage. The Jews, unlike many of their contemporaries, had an unromanticized, "unmythologized" view of marriage. But they also came to see in marriage - ordinary, everyday marriage - a sign of God's saving love, just as later the early Christians came to see in marriage a sacrament of Christ's redemptive love for his Church.
In the second volume, Father Schillebeeckx traces the history of this insight through the centuries of Christian thought and experience of marriage. Always interesting, this history can, at times, be quite surprising. The reader may be surprised to learn, for example, that the indissolubility of Christian marriage has been differently interpreted in East and West, and that the ecclesial celebration of marriage came comparatively late - and not quite by intention.
The volumes to come will deal with the cultural and psychological aspects of marriage and will grapple with some of the problems faced in modern Christian marriage. But such considerations are vainly dealt with unless there is, as a foundation, such a full historico-theological foundation as Father Schillebeeckx has provided in these two volumes.
Edward Schillebeeckx, OP, was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1914 and entered the Flemish Province of the Dominican Order in 1935. He received his Doctorate in Theology from "Le Saulchoire," Etoilles, France. For fourteen years he taught at Louvain both in the Dominican House of Studies and at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of the University. In 1958 he was appointed Professor of Dogmatic Theology, History of Theology, and Christian Anthropology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. Professor Schillebeeckx also served as theological expert for the Dutch Bishops at the Second Vatican Council.
Editor-in-chief of two Dutch journals of theology, Father Schillebeeckx contributes frequently to many scholarly magazines in the fields of theology and philosophy in English, French and Dutch. He is the author of the monumental work Christ The Sacrament of the Encounter with God and of Mary, Mother of the Redemption.
Taken from the inside flaps.
Volume I: Marriage in the Old and New Testaments
Volume II: Marriage in the History of the Church
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