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| Abbreviations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: A Great Sacrament | |
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| A Sacrament among Sacraments | |
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| Memorial, Actuation, Prophecy | |
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| Among the Great Sacraments | |
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| A Revelatory Sacrament | |
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| From Sign to Action | |
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| Jesus Christ, Sacrament or Source? | |
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| The Great Mystery | |
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| "Mystery" | |
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| Marriage in Creadon | |
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| In Eden, the Creation Accounts | |
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| Marriage and the Fall | |
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| Marriage, a Created Reality | |
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| Israel: Towards the "Great Mystery" | |
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| Marriage, Transformed in Christ | |
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| The Incarnation | |
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| Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom | |
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| The Bridegroom as Prophet | |
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| The Bridegroom as Priest-Victim | |
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| The Bridegroom as King | |
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| God, The Source of Marriage | |
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| The Bridegroom and the Trinity | |
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| The Love of the Trinity | |
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| The Trinity and Marriage | |
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| The Divine Author | |
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| Marriage "In Christ" | |
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| Saint Paul | |
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| Ephesians: The Context | |
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| Marriage in Ephesians | |
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| Headship | |
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| Love in the Mystery | |
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| The Basis of the Sacrament | |
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| Christians, Espoused by Christ | |
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| Christians, Sealed by the Holy Spirit | |
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| Spouses, Consecrated by the Holy Spirit | |
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| Spouses, Sanctified by the Holy Spirit | |
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| The Quest for The Sign | |
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| The Patristic Age | |
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| Saint Augustine | |
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| After Saint Augustine | |
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| The Schoolmen | |
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| Saint Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Signification in Saint Thomas | |
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| The Grace of Marriage in Saint Thomas | |
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| After Saint Thomas | |
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| The Council of Trent | |
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| After Trent | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Cardinal Newman's Test | |
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| The Sacramental Consent | |
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| Consent, The Form of the Sacrament | |
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| The Sacramental Word | |
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| Words of Faith and Obedience | |
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| Male and Female Consent | |
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| Consent as Choice | |
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| Consent and Contract | |
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| Consent as Efficient Cause | |
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| An Ecclesial Contract | |
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| Consent and Love | |
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| In the Heart of Christ | |
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| In Human Hearts | |
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| Consent for Consummation | |
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| The Consent of the Church | |
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| The Simplicity of Consent | |
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| The Sacramental Bond | |
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| The Bond of the Holy Spirit | |
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| One Flesh in the Spirit | |
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| The Spirit of Unity in the Church | |
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| Consecration | |
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| The Bond of Love | |
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| The Sacramentality of the Body | |
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| Spousal Union, an Effectual Sign | |
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| Spousal Union as Worship | |
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| A Catholic Tradition | |
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| The Sacramental Bond and Adultery | |
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| Indissolubility | |
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| Indissolubility within the Sacrament | |
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| Indissolubility Threatened | |
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| The Gift of Indissolubility | |
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| The Sacramental Covenant | |
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| Covenant | |
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| The Old Covenant | |
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| The New Covenant | |
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| "Foedus" in the Teaching of Vatican II | |
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| The Grace of This Covenant | |
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| Believing in Marriage | |
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| The Cross and Resurrection | |
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| Called to Peace | |
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| In the Eucharistic Covenant | |
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| Persevering in Love | |
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| Sacramental Problems | |
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| Faith and Sacrament | |
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| Resolving the Problem | |
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| Marriage with an Unbaptized Person-A Sacrament?199 | |
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| Drawn into the "Great Mystery" | |
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| "Sacrament," an Ecumenical Question | |
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| The Eastern Orthodox | |
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| The Anglicans | |
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| The Sacrament and Contraception | |
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| Fidelity to the Covenant? | |
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| One Flesh? | |
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| Unity | |
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| The Life of the Church | |
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| A Response | |
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| The Sacrament of The Family | |
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| A Social Sacrament | |
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| Prophets, Priests, Kings | |
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| The Family, a "Sacrament" | |
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| The Return to God | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |