For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings

Name: For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings
Price: 22.45 GBP
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Author: Klaus Fiedler
ISBN: 9789996066795

by Klaus Fiedler

Paperback
Publisher: Luviri Press
14.9 x 21.1 x 2.3 cm

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Over the last decades, an ever-growing gap has developed between traditional marriage and the officiation of it as a church wedding, because of the expenses involved in a "proper" church wedding. These are not demanded by the churches, but by common social expectations. Irrespective of whether a church sees marriage as a sacrament or as a civil order, much emphasis is put on it, by the churches and by society. Many churches exclude those "not properly married" from the sacraments. But why should the churches put so much emphasis on their church wed-dings, a ritual not found in the New Testament, and which came into the church only almost a thousand years later?