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Marriage (as Sacrament)

A covenant of husband and wife — and, for some, a sacred mystery

Marriage is the lifelong covenant union of husband and wife, which some traditions regard as a sacrament. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians likens it to Christ and the Church, and Tertullian wrote of its sanctity. Catholic and Orthodox traditions hold it to be a sacrament or mystery, while most Protestant traditions honor it as a sacred ordinance but not a sacrament. Thus the traditions differ on its sacramental standing.

How it traveled

  1. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
    explains
  2. On Monogamy.
    · 220
    explains
  3. On Exhortation to Chastity.
    · 220
    explains
  4. The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocæsarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods
    · 360
    explains
  5. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  6. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  7. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  8. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    redefines
  9. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
    explains
  10. Against Jovinianus
    Bethlehem · 420
    applies
  11. On Marriage and Concupiscence
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  12. On the Good of Marriage
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  13. Of Holy Virginity
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  14. A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  15. Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  16. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
    applies
  17. The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
    explains
  18. Selected Epistles of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
    applies
  19. The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 692
    explains
  20. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  21. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
    applies

Key passages(20)

On the Good of Marriage · Augustine of Hippo

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On the Good of Marriage · Augustine of Hippo

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The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom · John Chrysostom

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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin

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Homilies on First Corinthians · John Chrysostom

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