Spousal Love: Essays on Integral Fidelity
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Humanities/Philosophies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 331
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will dwell on the Catholic Church’s teaching on marriage through a dramatic encountering of the feminine and masculine natures which alone unite in spousal love. In particular, we seek to dilate Wojtyla’s Theology of the Body and situate it within literary, phenomenological, metaphysical, theological, Christological, and mystical dimensions, thereby illuminating the simultaneous living praxis and transcendental Beauty of such teaching.
Under the conceptual umbrella of this Special Issue, specific topics may vary greatly, encountering different arenas within the dramatic life of conjugal spirituality. Such topics to be welcomed are: the pro-creative meaning of marriage; its relationship to technology and science; scriptural exegesis on marriage; literary and poetic insight into the marital union; the suffering and death of the other; the types of love involved in marriage and family; authentic femininity and masculinity; and Christ, the Holy Family, and spousal love.
We seek, most especially, to recover the agapetic and erotic dimensions of the Sacrament of Marriage, thereby confronting modern and post-modern arguments that view traditional marriage as a remnant of an outdated misogynistic patriarchy. With a view towards a radically integral understanding of femininity and masculinity, this Special Issue aims to show that the loss of either is a loss of both, and the loss of both is the loss of Christ. As such, it seeks to address the tension between marriage as a human and as a divine institution.
Now, more than ever, in the wake of “cancel culture” and its civil unrest that seeks to undermine traditional teaching on marriage and family, it is essential that there is a continuing and evolving dialogue with Theology of the Body literature. We seek to supplement that existing literature by placing those insights within the most organic and integral approach; refusing them to be reduced merely to an antiquated and irrelevant set of ideas, but showing them in their vitality within the most beautiful and relevant expressions of human and divine life.
Dr. Caitlin Smith Gilson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spousal love
- Eros, Agape, Philia
- theology of the body
- pro-creative
- authentic femininity and masculinity
- Christ and the Sacrament of Marriage
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