This book has two objectives, one explicit and one implicit. The explicit objective is to explore the normative implications for both general and sexual ethics of the methodological and anthropological developments in Catholic tradition. The implicit objective is to stimulate dialogue in the Church about ethics, particularly sexual ethics, a dialogue that must necessarily include all in the communion-Church, laity, theologians, and hierarchy. Since we believe that genuine and respectful dialogue about sexual morality is sorely needed to clarify Christian truth today, we intend this book to be part of that genuine dialogue.

Catholic Theological Ethics: Ancient Questions, Contemporary Responses

Religion & Spirituality

Lawler, Michael G.

Salzman Amelia and Emil Graff Professor of Theology Creighton University, Todd A.

Christian Books & Bibles

University Press of America

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Sacrament of Service: A Vision of the Permanent Diaconate Today

McCaslin, Patrick

Paulist Pr

In this comprehensive study, Michael Lawler incorporates the insights of philosophy, anthropology, biblical and liturgical studies to fashion a theology of sacraments as "prophetic symbols." Reflection on each of the sacraments he presents the significant biblical data, highlights important historical shifts, and notes contemporary revisions of the sacramental rites and current theological developments. With an excellent command of the sources, and employing insights of contemporary sacramental theology, Michael Lawler develops a theology of the sacraments which seeks to respond to the many pressing pastoral issues of today.

Symbol and sacrament: A contemporary sacramental theology

Paulist Press

At a time in human history when women and men are more concerned about interpersonal relationships and when there is an extensive questioning of the specific relationship between a woman and a man in marriage, Marriage and Sacrament offers an understanding of how to live out the Christ-meaning and Church-meaning of that relationship so that, by living martially and sacramentally, couples can reveal to the world and to the Church the deeper meaning of all human love.
The book examines the relationship among love, marriage, and sacrament; it examines the meanings of the sacrament of marriage, its biblical basis, its history and what happens when it comes to an end; it examines sexual love, indissoluble love, fruitful love, and ecumenical love in relationship to both marriage and sacrament.
Marriage and Sacrament is an indispensable resource for pastoral ministers and ministry students as well as all who contemplate or are now partners in marriage.

Marriage and Sacrament: A Theology of Christian Marriage

Self-Help

Relationships

Liturgical Press

It is an open secret that marriage is in crisis in the United States and that the marriages of Catholics are not significantly different from other marriages. In Marriage and the Catholic Church Michael Lawler confronts the difficult questions in the Catholic theology of marriage. Lawler, among the leading Catholic voices on the theology of marriage, does not shy away from the difficult questions, but confronts them honestly, historically accurately, and pastorally. He highlights a Catholic approach to premarital relationships, to marriage, to divorce, and to remarriage. He examines the relationship of marriage and sacrament, faith and sacrament, friendship in marriage, divorce and remarriage, cohabitation, family, interchurch marriages, and the changing models of marriage in the Catholic tradition. The whole offers a fresh look at the Catholic theology of marriage for a new millennium. Chapter 1 looks at marriage as a sacrament. Chapter 2 then asks what models of marriage function in the contemporary Catholic Church. Chapter 3 considers what it takes to transform the social reality of marriage into the Catholic sacrament and answers that it takes personal faith. Lawler looks into the bonds or relationships in marriage in Chapter 4. He offers an extended consideration of divorce and remarriage in the Catholic Church in Chapter 5. In Chapter 6 he offers theological and pastoral reflections on interchurch marriage. He analyzes the Christian reality and value of friendship and reflects on its contribution to the stability of marriage in Chapter 7. Lawler inquires, in Chapter 8, whether cohabitation could, again as in the past, be counted as a step in the process of becoming married in the Catholic tradition. Finally in Chapter 9 he seeks to construct a theology of Christian family and reflects on what that theology, and the families rooted in it, can contribute to American families in their present crisis. Chapters are Marriage and the Sacrament of Marriage," "Catholic Models of Marriage," "Faith and Sacrament in Christian Marriage," "On the Bonds of Marriage," "Divorce and Remarriage in the Catholic Church," "Interchurch Marriages: Theological and Pastoral Reflections," "Friendship and Marriage," "Cohabitation and Marriage in the Catholic Church: A Proposal," and "Toward a Theology of Christian Family." 
Michael G. Lawler, PhD, is the Amelia B. and Emil G. Graff Chair in Catholic Theological Studies and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He directs the Center for Marriage and Family, whose studies of marriage preparation, interchurch marriages, and the first five years of marriage have gained international acclaim."

Marriage and the Catholic Church: Disputed Questions (Theology)

Theologians today take for granted that the principal achievement of the Second Vatican Council was its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium. The central core of this central document - its Vision of Church as communion - is also being taken for granted. But this Vision was hard won - or, rather, recovered - at the Council, and its significance should not be allowed to fade with time or familiarity.The Church: A Spirited Communion emanates from the ecclesiology of Vatican II as a systematic treatment of this Vision of communion: graced, prophetic, sacramental, spiritual, and ministerial. It is about a Church in communion with the laity, the hierarchy, and with all the Churches. Since Church" is God in communion with the faithful, this book is primarily theo-logical and only secondarily ecclesio-logical. It is primarily about the God who is Triune, who calls the Church into existence, and who seeks in every age a people who adhere to "God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).

Church: A Spirited Communion (Theology and Life)

Politics & Social Sciences

Shanahan SJ, Thomas J.

Philosophy

Gaudium et Spes, Vatican Ii's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, marked fundamental shifts in ethical methodology, in how we do ethics in the Catholic tradition, and in how we think about ethical and ecclesial issues in the Catholic Church in the modern world. On the document's fiftieth anniversary, this book explores the historical origins of Gaudium et Spes, its impact on the Church's ecclesial self-understanding, and its implications for doing Catholic theological ethics for the specific ethical issues of marriage, social justice, politics, and peacebuilding.The book engages in the ongoing communal discernment of the aggiornamento sought by the council's convener, Pope John Xxiii, seeking to bring the Church up to date in the twenty-first century.

The Church in the Modern World: Gaudium et Spes Then and Now

Michael G. Lawler, director of the Center for Marriage and Family at Creighton University, examines in-depth the links between what Americans are crying out for and what the Christian tradition teaches in regard to the family. Drawing from years of original research and supplemented by up-to-date surveys and statistics, Lawler invites Christians to rediscover the fundamental vision for family living embedded in Christianity. By better understanding how Christian values and teachings apply to modern family situations and relationships, we can transform and improve our unions.

Family: American and Christian

Lawler

Loyola Press

Ecumenical Marriage and Remarriage: Gifts and Challenges to the Churches

Social Sciences

Twenty Third Pubns

Michael Lawler articulates a theology of ministry that is much-needed in a world in which Christian of all denominations often misunderstand their universal call to ministry on behalf of both the kingdom of God and the church which serves that kingdom. This theological approach will profit all who are concerned with the question of ministry- whether they be ordained ministers or committed laypersons, female or male, old or young.

A Theology of Ministry

Sheed Ward

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