The Teaching on marriage in the Protestant Catechism for Adults  Cover Image

NAUKA O MAŁŻEŃSTWIE w Ewangelickim Katechizmie dla Dorosłych
The Teaching on marriage in the Protestant Catechism for Adults

Author(s): Piotr Jaskóła
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II - Wydział Teologii
Keywords: marriage; mixted marriages; Catechism; evangelical; divorce

Summary/Abstract: The Protestant Catechism for Adults considers the marriage in the six points: civil marriage and church marriage (1), what marriage is? (2) what does refer to the marriage? (3), what kind of marriage does exist? (4) a divorce (5), mixted marriages (6). The Catechism acknowledges in the very beginning, that the institution of marriage refers to the all nations and religions and from the law's perspective has been driven by different rules and orders. According to the Bible, marriage has been rooted in the act and the order of creation. Human beings were created as man and woman. A reciprocal relantionship written in the very nature of man and woman let to recognise that married state and its binding character had been created by God himself.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 4 (59)
  • Page Range: 91-106
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish