Terence McGoldrick – The Ascent of Marriage as Vocation and Sacrament. Francis de Sales’ Christian Humanist Theology of Marriage. A New and Old Vision between Two Competing Traditions on the Highest Vocation from the Apostolic Church to Erasmus.

This article explores two traditions on Marriage from the New Testament to Francis de Sales.

It shows that although the Doctor of love’s position that marriage is a vocation and sacramental way to fully live in Jesus is at odds with the council of Trent, which holds that religious life is the highest state, the Salesian theology of marriage is in fact robustly represented in a multifaceted Patristic Tradition. It explains how de Sales resolves issues presented by 1 Corinthians chapter 7 and the Neo-platonists to interpret the whole Gospel as the vocation to live God’s love in marriage by and through one another and in family life. It thus argues that the Salesian positive view represents a Christian humanist theology of marriage that is both traditional and original.

 

L’articolo studia due tradizioni relative al matrimonio, che vanno dal Nuovo Testamento a Francesco di Sales.

Quantunque la visione salesiana del matrimonio come vocazione e via sacramentale alla pienezza di vita in Gesù sia in disaccordo col concilio di Trento che reputa la vita consacrata uno stato più eminente, l’autore mostra come la teologia del Dottore dell’amore sia, di fatto, ampiamente rappresentata nella ricca tradizione patristica. Egli documenta in qual modo il vescovo di Ginevra risolva le questioni sollevate da 1 Cor 7 e dai Neo-Platonici, interpretando l’intero Vangelo come vocazione a vivere l’amor di Dio attraverso la relazionalità matrimoniale e la vita di famiglia. Ne trae la conclusione che la visione positiva di Francesco di Sales rappresenti una teologia umanistico-cristiana del matrimonio che è insieme tradizionale e originale.

 

Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Two Traditions of Christian Marriage and Sexuality
  3. A Patristic Tradition for the Excellence of Marriage
  4. Conclusion

Reference time period: 1700 – 2015

T. McGoldrick, The Ascent of Marriage as Vocation and Sacrament. Francis de Sales’ Christian Humanist Theology of Marriage. A New and Old Vision between Two Competing Traditions on the Highest Vocation from the Apostolic Church to Erasmus, in «Salesianum» 77 (2015) 207-249.

Reference institution:
Università Pontificia Salesiana
Università Pontificia Salesiana

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