by Ashley Purpura (This essay was originally delivered as a public talk at the June 2015 Fordham/OTSA conference on the upcoming Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church. It was part of a panel on canonical impediments to marriage.) According to Orthodox canon law and theology, the ideal Christian marriage among laypeople is union between faithfully…
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Liturgical Life, Orthodoxy and Modernity
Modern Challenges to Traditional Orthodox Perspectives on Marriage
(This essay was originally delivered as a public talk at the June 2015 Fordham/OTSA conference on the upcoming Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church. It was part of a panel on canonical impediments to marriage.) It will no doubt be useful for the Council to focus on harmonizing canonical impediments to marriage—especially marriages where one…
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