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In this volume five Cardinals of the Church, and four other scholars, respond to the call issued by Cardinal Walter Kasper for the Church to harmonize "fidelity and mercy in its pastoral practice with civilly remarried, divorced people". Beginning with a concise introduction, the first part of the book is dedicated to the primary biblical texts pertaining to divorce and remarriage, and the second part is an examination of the teaching and practice prevalent in the early Church. In neither of these cases, biblical or patristic, do these scholars find support for the kind of "toleration" of civil marriages following divorce advocated by Cardinal Kasper. This book also examines the Eastern Orthodox practice of oikonomia (understood as "mercy" implying "toleration") in cases of remarriage after divorce and in the context of the vexed question of Eucharistic communion. It traces the centuries long history of Catholic resistance to this convention, revealing serious theological and canonical difficulties inherent in past and current Orthodox Church practice. Thus, in the second part of the book, the authors argue in favor of retaining the theological and canonical rationale for the intri
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- Author
- Robert Dodaro; Walter Brandmüller; Carlo Caffarra; Velasio De Paolis; Paul Mankowski; Gerhard Müller; John M. Rist; Cyril Vasil’; Raymond Leo Burke
- Publisher
- Ignatius Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781586179953
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Christian, Christianity
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (90 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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