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144 20 03.1 1 creaturely-being-in-relation-with-god b ei n g- w it h -s e x ua l -b o dy have is b e in g - i n -r e l a ti o n - w it h - oppo site-s ex bein g-in-r elatio n-with -fello w-sexu al-hum ans co- humani ty 1 Willard F. Harley Jr., His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage (Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell, 1986) Robert Banks and R. Paul Stevens, eds., The Com plete Book of Everyday Christianity: An A to Z Guide to Following Christ in Every Aspect of Life (Downers Grove: IVP, 1997), 603 4
145 being-as-subject-in-relation-withthe-other 2 being-existentiallyin -s in Fr iedr ich Sch lei erm ache r 2 31 2001 7 16 29
146 20 03.1 3 Emil Brunner 4 K. B a r t h divin e singula rity h u m a n du a l i t y 5 sac rame ntal sig n 6 e x op e r e o p er a t o bon d inca rnate l ove 3 Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, ed. G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, 4 vols. (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1956 1974), III/4:121 22 4 Emil Brunner, The Divine Imperative: A Study in Christian Ethics (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1937), 344 45. 5 Barth, CD, III/4:122. 6 Karl Rahner, The Church and the Sacraments (New York: Herder & Herder, 1963), 24 34.
147 7 P. Lombard a si g n of t h e s a c re d c a u s e o f g r a c e 1. 2. 3. 8 apotheosis 9 7 Waldemar Molinski, Marriage, in Encyclopedia of Theology: The Concise Sacramentum Mundi, ed. Karl Rahner (New York: Seabury, 1975), 911 12. 8 Joseph Martos, Marriage, in Perspectives on Marriage: A Reader, ed. Kieran Scott and Michael Warren (New York and Oxford: OUP, 1993), 51. 9 Barth, CD, III/4:122 25.
148 20 03.1 1 0 e r o s agape responsible p e rs o n a l r e l a ti o n s hi p 1 1 personal 1 2 se x na tur e R. An de rso n 10 Paul K. Jewett, Who We Are: Our Dignity as Human A Neo-Evangelical Theology, edited, completed, and with sermons by Marguerite Shuster (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996), 191. 11 Brunner, Divine Imperative, 345 48. 12 348 49
149 1 3 1 4 s ex u al i m pl i ca ti o ns consumm ation and comp letion 13 Ray S. Anderson and Dennis B. Guernsey, On Being Family: A Social Theology of the Family (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985), 86 87. 14 87
150 20 03.1 contextualizing 1 5 being-in-union-withoppo site-s ex 1 6 1 7 15 87 88 16 29 33 17 Martos, Marriage, 30 68; Adrian Thatcher, Beginning Marriage: Two Traditions, in Religion and Sexuality, ed. Michael A. Hayes, Wendy Porter and David Tombs (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 415 26.
151 i nt r in s ic a ll y or i en t ed e x i s t e n c e i n t h e s i n g u l a r i t y o f d e t e r m i n a t i o n b y t h e o t h e r 18 life-partnership inclusive exclusive temporary permanent 19 18 Ray S. Anderson, On Being Hum an: Essays in Theological Anthropology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982), 52 19 Barth, CD, III/4:182. Marriage may be defined as something which fixes and makes concrete the encounter and interrelation of man and woman in the form of the unique, unrepeatable and incomparable encounter and relationship between a particular man and a particular woman.
152 20 03.1 soc ial c ontra ct c o v e n an t a l p a r t n er s h i p 2 0 1 4 t y r b 1 0 P. P a lm e r 2 1 22 D. J. At k in s on 20 Anderson and Guernsey, On Being Family, 90. 21 Paul F. Palmer, Christian Marriage: Contract or Covenant? TS 33 (1972): 617 65. 22 Barth, CD, III/1, 41, Creation and Covenant.
153 ag ree men t 1. 2. 3. 4. 2 3 G. P. Hu ge nb e rg er re lat ion shi p ob liga tio n oa th s ol e mn p r om i se el ec te d re la tio nsh ip of o bli gat io n 13 3 tr ea ty 2 6 2 4 2 ~ 2 1 9 l o v e brotherhood peace 23 David J. Atkinson, To Have and to Hold: The Marriage Covenant and the Discipline of Divorce (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979), 70 71. 24 Gordon P. Hugenberger, Marriage as a Covenant: Biblical Law and Ethics as Developed from Malachi (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994), 171 73. 173 74
154 20 03.1 D. J. M c C a r t h y 25 P. Ka l l u v e e tt i l 2 6 adoption 27 2 4 2 4 1 8 2 0 o a t h -s i g n 28 25 Dennis J. McCarthy, Treaty and Covenant: A Study in Form in the Ancient Oriental Documents and in the Old Testament, AnBib 21a (Rome: Biblical Institute, 1981), 297, quoted in Hugenberger, Marriage as a Covenant, 179. 26 Paul Kalluveettil, C. M. I., Declaration and Covenant: A Comprehensive Review of Covenant Formulae from the Old Testam ent and the Ancient Near East, AnBib 88 (Rome: Biblical Institute, 1982), 51. 27 Hugenberger, Marriage as a Covenant, 176 80. 28 180 85
155 ajx, [vp, s in l[m, dnb, i n f id e l it y p er f i dy 29 v o w marri age prom ise m a r r i a g e c o v e n a n t de riv at ive se ns e 3 0 S. Gren z 29 281 312 313 37 30 Jewett, Who We Are, 256 57.
156 20 03.1 2 4 3 1 f id e l it y 3 2 31 Stanley J. Grenz, Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997), 63. 32 Jewett, Who We Are, 257.
157 concurrent n a t u r e v ol it i on al 33 2 5 3 4 35 33 214 16 34 32 2002 1 17 25 35 David Atkinson, Marriage, in Pastoral Ethics (Lynx: SPCK, 1994), 20 21.
158 20 03.1 36 Da se in t hr ow n ne ss fa ll enn es s pr oj ect io n D a s e i n b e i ng - a h e a d- o f - o n e se l f 37 i n t i m a t e communion W. J. E v e r e t t r e ci p r o ca l re s p o ns e fellow ship hi er ar ch ic al 36 Barth, CD, III/4:183 87. 184 37 30 35
159 3 8 3 9 4 0 c o n t i n u u m s y m b i o s i s i n d i v i d u a t i o n s e l f - a wa r en e ss 1. 2. s ex ua l to ge th er ne ss v ul ne ra bi li ty se lf -i nt im ac y mu tu al in tim ac y 38 William Johnson Everett, Blessed Be the Bond: Christian Perspectives on Marriage and Family (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985), 50 51. 39 25 30 40 Everett, Blessed Be the Bond, 79.
160 20 03.1 4 1 T ho ma s P. M al o ne P at r ic k T. M a lo n e 4 2 I f I am I b e c au s e y o u a r e yo u, a n d y o u a r e y o u b e c a u s e I a m I, t h e n I a m n o t a n d y o u a r e n o t. I f I a m I b e c a u s e I a m I, a n d y o u a r e y o u b e c a u s e y o u a r e y ou, t h e n I a m a n d y o u a r e. 43 4 4 41 P. Daniel McGee, The Inti-Mate Marriage, Review and Expositor 98, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 192 95. 42 Thomas P. Malone and Patrick T. Malone, The Art of Intimacy (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1987), 19, quoted in McGee, The Inti-Mate Marriage, 195. 43 McGee, The Inti-Mate Marriage, 195. 44 196
161 3 9 c o n s t a n c y 9 6 9 4 5 bond ing 4 6 t he ch o ic e m ad e i n l o ve 47 45 Barth, CD, III/4:203 5. 46 Grenz, Sexual Ethics, 69. 47 Barth, CD, III/4:195.
162 20 03.1 4 8 4 9 el ec ti ng g ra ce g if t 48 195 96 49
163 50 5 1 52 53 5 4 50 Barth, CD, III/4:197 98. 51 198 99 52 Grenz, Sexual Ethics, 101. 53 14 16 54 Grenz, Sexual Ethics, 110.
164 20 03.1 5 5 o r d e r o f c r e a t i o n 5 6 55 Social Concerns Committee, Marriage and Its Purposes, section 2 of Human Sexuality: A Theological Perspective, Project Wittenberg, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Document, September 1981, available from http://www.iclnet.org/pub/ resources/text/wittenberg/mosynod/web/sxty-03.html. 56
165 2 9 ordinance domesticate 57 57
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