Oikonomia Divorce And Remarriage In The Eastern Orthodox Tradition 1st Kevin Schembri by Kevin Schembri 9788897789390, 8897789390 instant download after payment.

Over the last fifty years, the Eastern Orthodox position on oikonomia, divorce and

remarriage was the subject of numerous studies. This volume builds on this research

and attempts to offer a comprehensive and systematic presentation of the Orthodox

approach to these topics. By doing so, it contributes towards a deeper understanding

and appreciation of the Eastern tradition, and presents the Western Churches with a

valuable resource in their pursuit of ecumenical dialogue with the Orthodox East, in

their dealing with the ever-growing reality of mixed marriages, and in their ministry to

the divorced and remarried members of their faithful. It is hoped that this work will also

add to the already rich tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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nullity of marriage; instead, the majority of these Churches have a

discipline that dissolves the matrimonial bond through oikonomia.

Even though the Orthodox discipline is alien to the Catholic tradition,

canons 780 and 781 of the Code of Canons of the Oriental Churches

(CCEO) and articles 2 and 4 of the Instruction Dignitas Connubii state

that a marriage between a Catholic and an Orthodox is governed not only

by divine law and canon law, but also by the proper matrimonial law of

the Church to which the Orthodox party belongs. These norms also

declare that whenever an ecclesiastical judge is to decide about the nullity

of a marriage between baptised non-Catholics, wherein at least one party

is Orthodox, he or she must also consider the law by which the parties

were bound at the time of the celebration of the marriage and whether

that marriage was celebrated with a sacred rite.