Under the spell of the ring: the role of marriage in moral debates among orthodox reformed Christians in the Netherlands
Among orthodox reformed Christians in the Netherlands fierce debates have occurred on moral aspects of Christian life. This essay discusses three major controversial moral issues that are related to conceptions of sex, gender, and sexuality: divorce/remarriage, women’s ordination, and homosexuality....
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2014]
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2014, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-55 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Netherlands
/ Reformed Church
/ Marriage
/ Divorce
/ Remarriage
/ Ordination
/ Woman
/ Homosexuality
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IxTheo Classification: | KBD Benelux countries KDD Protestant Church NCF Sexual ethics |
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Summary: | Among orthodox reformed Christians in the Netherlands fierce debates have occurred on moral aspects of Christian life. This essay discusses three major controversial moral issues that are related to conceptions of sex, gender, and sexuality: divorce/remarriage, women’s ordination, and homosexuality. By analysing several contributions to debates on these issues, it proposes and explores a hypothesis that concerns the role of a particular understanding of marriage as characterized by a hermeneutical construct: a communal, deeply rooted and subconscious normative principle that drives our interpretations of texts and practices. This essay illustrates the problems of both the dominance of marriage within Christian communities and lived faith, as well as the modern, romantic aspects of this particular understanding of marriage. |
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ISSN: | 1355-8358 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1179/1355835814Z.00000000039 |