Marriage Talks

Recorded Talks from the Theology Guild

From Marriage: Reading the Tradition...

The Future of Marriage

May 3: Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, A History, Chs. 15-17, Conclusion; Stanley Hauerwas, After Christendom, “The Politics of Sex: How Marriage is a Subversive Act”; Luke Timothy Johnson, “Disputed Questions: Debate and Discernment, Scripture and the Spirit”

(Click here to listen to an Introduction to the readings from Coontz, Hauerwas, and Johnson.)

19 April: Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes 47-52; John Paul II, Love and Responsibility, Ch. 4: Marriage

(Click here to listen to an Introduction to Gaudium et Spes and Love and Responsibility.)

Medieval and Modern Views on Marriage

5 April: The Council of Trent, Session 24 “Tametsi” (11 November 1563); John Dod & Robert Cleaver, A Godly Form of Householde Gouernment (1621); The Book of Common Prayer (1662) and Common Worship (2000); John Locke, Two Treatises on Government II.7.77-83 (1689)
 

(Click here to listen to an Introduction to these readings from the Council of Trent, Dod & Cleaver, The Book of Common Prayer and John Locke.)

15 March: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles III-II.122-124, Summa Theologiae Supp. 41.1; Martin Luther, Table Talk, No. 414, “Letter to Elector John of Saxony” (June 10, 1540); John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion 4.19, 2.8

(Click here to listen to an Introduction to readings from Thomas Aquinas.)
(Click here to listen to an Introduction to the readings from Luther and Calvin.)

The Fathers on Marriage

23 February: Augustine, The Excellence of Marriage 18.21-26.35
16 February: Augustine, The Excellence of Marriage 1.1-17.20

(Click here to listent to an Introduction to Augustine's The Excellence of Marriage.)

2 February: Augustine, The City of God 14.17-19; The Literal Meaning of Genesis 9.3.5-9.11.19

(Click here to listen to an Introduction to Augustine.)

19 January, 2016, Tertullian, To His Wife; Jerome, Against Jovinian I.1-9, 26

(Click here to listen to an Introduction to Tertullian and Jerome.)

5 January, 2016, Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 2.23, The Instructor 2.10.83-97; Lactantius, Divine Institutes 3.21-22, 6.23

(Click here to listen to an Introduction to Clement of Alexandria and Lactantius.)

Paul on Marriage
(Recorded as three audio files for each chapter.)
December 1, 2015, Romans 7; 1 Corinthians 7; Ephesians 5

Jesus on Marriage

November 17, 2015, Matthew 1:18-25; Matthew 5:20-48; Matthew 19:1-12; Mark 10:1-12; Luke 16:18; Luke 20:27-40; John 2:1-12

The Hebrew and Classical Roots of Marriage

November 3, 2015, Plato, Republic 457c-461e; Laws 6:773-774; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8.12; Musonius Rufus, Lectures 13a-b; The Institutes of Justinian 1.1.2

October 20, 2015~Gn. 29-30; Lv. 18; Dt. 24:1-4; Hos. 1-3; Prov. 5; Mal. 2:10-17

October 6, 2015~Genesis 1-3

Septemember 22, 2015~Why Marriage? And How to Read and How to Argue