SE: PREMARITAL Flashcards
What did Pope Paul VI state about premarital sex?
“attain their human fulfilment.”
What is a ‘trial marriage’?
Where the couple intend to marry later.
What does the Catholic Church state that premarital sex does not express?
Fidelity, exclusivity and commitment.
What are people who in engage in premarital sex doing according to the CC?
Committing a grave sin.
What does the Church of England accept?
“accept that cohabitation is, for many people, a step along the way towards that fuller and more complete commitment”.
What does the modern Christian view reject?
The ‘ownership’ view and sees men and women as equal in the relationship, although in practice this equality is not evident in all marriages.
Who claims that celibacy is more holy?
Stoics and Pythagoreans.
What did Luther do instead of celibacy?
Left monastery and married, he argued that marital sexuality was in part for the purpose of pleasure rather than reproduction alone.
What did Augustine state about sex pre-fall?
Uncontaminated by raging passion and controlled and restrained by the mind.
What did Augustine claim was the highest ideal?
Celibacy as sex was regarded as a necessary evil to continue the species.
What do fundamentalist Christians argue about premarital sex?
Always wrong. The strength of taking this moral position is the emphasis it places on the importance of marriage.
What does the Methodist Church argue about sexuality?
“Sexuality is a gift of God”
