Introduction to Catholicism 2003
Cath 200A
Tues / Thurs 10:05 am – 11:30 am Newman Centre
Kennedy Smith Professor of
Catholic Studies Daniel Cere
Offices Hours: Tues/Thurs 1:30
- 2:30 Offices
Hours: Mon /Wed: 4-5pm.
(Newman Centre) Wed. 10-11
(Arts 220) 3484 Peel,
Rm.2 Tel. 398-4106
Tel. 398-4433/4106 mailto:dwilli@po-mcgill.ca mailto:dcere@po-box.mcgill.ca
Course Description: The course provides an introduction into the complex reality of the Catholic tradition. The course offers interdisciplinary study of Catholic belief, history, worship, and spirituality. Topics range from the foundational doctrinal beliefs and historical events of Catholicism to contemporary developments and debates.
Course
Requirements:
1. Research
Essay (Oct. 29) (30%)
2.
Mid-Term (Nov.7) (35%)
3. Class
Presentations (Nov. 28, Dec. 3) (35%)
Course
Readings: There is no required text
for this course. However, the new
Catechism of the Catholic
Church (Diocesan Book Room / Cathedral
Mall) (also on numerous internet sites, e.g., http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm) is an
indispensable tool for the study of contemporary Catholic thought. Selections from church documents can found
on the Internet. For a list of the
course readings with internet hyperlinks (when available) go to our web site at: http://www.newmancentre.org; then click on
“academic life”; the course password
is: cathstudies. An extensive list of texts and resources
for Catholic belief can be found at the Theology
Library site: http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/Other helpful
internet tools are: Catholic Educator’s Resource Centre http://www.catholiceducation.org/and Religion Online: http://www.religion-online.org/
COURSE OUTLINE
Sept. 5: Introduction
Suggested
Readings: Karl Adam The Spirit of
Catholicism, ch.1
http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/SPIRCATH.HTM
- 13
R. McBrien, “Catholic Church” in HarperCollins Encyclopedia of
Catholicism.
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/ORTHODOX.HTM
Sept 10: The
Catholic Genealogy
Suggested
Readings: Cardinal Francis George, “On
the Papacy and the Teaching Office of the Church” http://catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0033.html
Henri de Lubac, 1950 Catholicism.
Sept 12: Doctrine and Authority
Pt.1
Suggested Readings: Dominus
Jesus, “Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ & the
Church” http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/documents/Dominus-Iesus.html
John Allen, “Exclusive
Claim”
http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/091500/091500a.htm
Jacques
Dupuis, “Religious Plurality and the Christology Debate”
http://www.sedos.org/english/dupuis.htm
Congregration
for Doctrine of the Faith, “Notification” (re. Jacques
Dupuis)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfdupui.htm
Joseph Ratzinger, “Answers
Objections to Dominus Jesus”
http://www.ewtn.com/library/Theology/OBDOMIHS.HTM
Sept 17: Doctrine
and Authority Pt.2
Suggested Readings: John Paul II: Faith
and Reason chapters. 1-4
http://www.zenit.org/english/archive/documents/fira-eng.html
Catechism: # 27-49
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/profess.html
- CAPACITY
Avery Dulles, The Craft of Theology, ch. 1 “Towards a
Postcritical Theology”
Thomas Aquinas, “The Nature
of Sacred Doctrine” Summa Theologica
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/100100.htm
Sept 19: Scripture and Revelation
Suggested reading:
Catechism 35, 50-53, 65-66, 80-83, 124, 218, 238-42, 243-48;
Etienne Gilson, Reason and Revelation in
the Middle Ages [B721 G53]
Stephen Fowl, Engaging Scripture [Birks BS 511.2 F675]
Larry S. Champ, The God Who Speaks, passim [BT 126.5
C48].
Dei Verbum (Vatican II)
Dogmatic Constitution on Revelation)
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v5.html
Sept. 24 Creation and the Universe
Suggested Readings: Catechism: #279-324;
2415-18
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/creator.html
- Creator
Avery Dulles, The Craft of Theology, ch.9 “Theology and the Physical Sciences.”
John Paul II, “The Consciousness of Creation”
in Sources of Renewal; 45-52;
Stanley Jaki, The Road to Science and the Ways to God;
Stanley Jaki, Genesis 1 Through the Ages.
Oct. 1 Science and Faith
Suggested Readings: Galileo, “Letter to Grand Duchess of Tuscany”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/galileo-tuscany.html
William Sherwin OP, “John Paul II on Science
and Faith”
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Dossier/0708-96/article4.html
William
E. Carroll, “Galileo: Science and Religion”
http://www.catholicity.com/school/icu/c02901.htm
George S. Johnson, “The
Galileo Affair”
http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Issues/GalileoAffair.html
David Lindberg and R. Numbers, God and Nature: Historical Essays on the
Encounter between Christianity and Science. BL 245 G63
Oct. 3 Patristics: Christology
Suggested
Readings: Catechism: # 422-83
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/creed1.html
- JESUS
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/creed2.html
- CONCEIVED
Richard McBrien, “The Christ
of the Fathers” Catholicism p.439-60.
Catholic
Encyclopedia, article "Fathers of the Church"
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06001a.htm
Athanasius, “On the Incarnation
of the Word of God”
http://www.ewtn.com/library/SOURCES/ATHINCAR.TXT
Oct. 8 Catholicism
in the Middle Ages
Suggested reading: Etienne Gilson, Spirit of
Mediaeval Philosophy chaps xv, xviiio,
xix, xx. D.W. Robertson, Preface to Chaucer II, 1, 52-65; III, 1,2,3 138-228; IV, 1,2,3,
286-365.
Oct. 10 Catholicism and the Mystical Tradition
Suggested reading:
Pseudo-Dionysius, Divine Names and
Mystical Theology, ed.
John D. Jones 15-40;
133-162; 203-207; 211-18.
http://www.ccel.org/r/rolt/dionysius/htm/ii.htm
- ii
Williams, Deformed Discourse, part I, chap 1.
John Milbank, Word Made Strange, chaps 1, 2 (pp.1-84).
Oct. 15 Reformation Catholicism
Suggested
Reading: H.O. Evennett, 1968. The
Spirit of the Counter Reformation
Oct. 17 Self and Other in Catholic Thought
Suggested
reading: Genesis, chaps 1-3
http://www.ccel.org/wwsb/Genesis/1.html
David Aers, Community, Gender, and Individual Identity.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self passim
John Crosby, The
Selfhood of the Human Person 1996.
Oct. 22 Evil, Sin, and Redemption
Suggested
reading: Genesis, chaps 4, 6-9, 11; Catechism 385-412, 1033-1041,
1846-1869; Paul Ricoeur, Symbolism of Evil.
Oct. 24 Memory
and Reconciliation
Suggested
Readings: International Theological
Commission, “Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past”
1999
John Paul II, “Day of Pardon” 2000
John Richard Neuhaus, “Scandal Time
(Continued)” http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0206/scandal.html
Mary Eberstadt, “The
Elephant in the Sacristy”
http://24.104.35.12/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/344fsdzu.asp
U.S. Conference of Bishops, “Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People” http://www.usccb.org/bishops/charter.htm
Oct. 29 Body,
Sex, and Self in Catholic Thought
Suggested
Readings: Catechism: # 897-913; 1601-17;
2201-13; 2331-36; 2360-79
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/matri.html -
MARRIAGE
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/fourth.html -
FAMILY
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/sixth.html
- SIXTH
Archbishop Dionigi Teltamanzi, “Christian Anthrolopology and Homosexuality”
http://www.petersnet.net/browse/165.htm
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, “Homosexuality and
Catholic Doctrine”
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/mar01/fabianbruskewitz.html
William E. May, “The Liberating Truth of Catholic
Teaching on Sexual Morality”
http://www.petersnet.net/browse/3416.htm
Lisa Cahill, “Sex, marriage, and family in
Christian Tradition”
John Paul II, “Mulieris Dignitatem” (Dignity
of Women) ch.5, ch.7.
John Paul II, Theology
of the Body.
Oct. 31 The
Catholic Imagination
Suggested
readings: Jacques Maritain, Art and Faith
[PQ 2605 O15 Z55]
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: II, 25-63;
III, 63-87; V, 143-
209; VI
213-228. Jacques Maritain, Creative
Intuition in Art and Poetry [BF 408
M25 folio]; Etienne Gilson, Arts of the
Beautiful [Birk BH 201 G55]; F. Murphy, Christ
the Form of Beauty [Birk BT 590 P45 M87] Frank Brown, Religious Aesthetics; Gene Veith, Reading Between the Lines. Peter Milward, Christian Themes in English Literature.
Nov.
5 The
Catholic Imagination (cont)
Nov.
7 MID TERM EXAM
Nov.
12 The
Church & Modernity
Suggested
Reading: Vatican II The Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes)
http://www.newadvent.org/docs/ec21gs.htm
Charles Taylor, A Catholic Modernity?
John Paul II, Christifideles Laici (“The Vocation and Mission of the Lay
Faithful”)
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/cl-index.html
Decree on the Apostolate of
the Laity (Vatican II)
http://listserv.american.edu/catholic/church/vaticanii/laity.asc
Nov. 14 The
Liturgy
Suggested readings: Catechism 1066-1186.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/liturgy2.htmPASCHAL
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/paschal2.html
- SACRAMENTAL
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/paschal2.html
- HOW
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Feast of Faith.
Jungmann, Rite
of the Roman Mass Part I, 1, 3-13; 7, 45-50; 8. 50-56; 9, 56-70; 12, 96-106; 13, 106-119; 14, 119-129. Parts
II-IV passim. Catherine Pickstock, After
Writing part II, chap 4:3 "The impossibility of liturgy;" David
Williams, "The Mass that Won't Die," Newman Rambler
Nov.
19 Prayer
and Spirituality
Suggested
Readings: The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality. (passim)
1993 Edited by Michael Downey
Laborem Exercens: #
25-27 http://www.newadvent.org/docs/jp02le.htm
Joseph Ratzinger, 1999. “The Ecclesial Movements: A Theological
Reflection” in Movements
in the Church
Nov. 21 Culture
of Death
Suggested
reading:
Catechism: 599-605,1929-1942;
John Paul II, Gospel of Life http://www.newadvent.org/docs/jp02ev.htm
Hans Urs von Balthasar,
"Descent into Hell."
Neil Gilman, Death of Death; Bernard Nathanson, Aborting America; E.J. Kremer and E.A. Synan eds, Death Before Birth; Philippe Aries, The Hour of Our Death; Michael Burleigh,
Death and Deliverance.
Nov. 26 Person
and Community
Suggested
Readings: Gaudium
et Spes 1965, “The Dignity of
the Human Person” #12-22 http://www.newadvent.org/docs/ec21gs.htm
George Weigel, “The Catholic Human Rights
Revolution”
John Paul II, Person and Community
Coleman, John A., ed. 1991 One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Thought
Nov.
28 Student Presentations
Dec.
3 Student Presentations
Bibliography:
Alberigo, G., Jossua, J-P., and Joseph Komonchak, 1987. The
Reception of Vatican II
Bossy, John. 1985 Christianity
and the West: 1400-1700
Brown, Raymond E. An Introduction
to the New Testament. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
Catechism of the Catholic Church 1994
Coleman, John A., ed. 1991 One
Hundred Years of Catholic Social Thought Orbis Books.
Coppo,
Frank J. 1998. The Modern Papacy Since
1789
Cunningham, Lawrence. 1983 The Catholic Heritage NY: Crossroad,
Cunningham, Lawrence.
1985 The Catholic Experience NY:
Crossroad
Dolan, John P. 1968 Catholicism:
An Historical Survey
Dulles, Avery, 1987 Models of the
Church
Dulles, Avery. 1985 Models of Revelation
Dulles, Avery 2000, The New World
of Faith
Dwyer, John C. 1998 Church History:
Twenty Centuries of Catholic Christianity
Evennett, H. O. 1968 The Spirit
of the Counter Reformation
Flannery,
A. (ed.). 1981 Vatican II: The Conciliar
and Post-Conciliar Documents
Gilkey, Langdon.1975 Catholicism Confronts Modernity: A Protestant View. Seabury Press
Greeley, Andrew 2000 The Catholic Imagination
Hastings,
Adrian (ed.) 1991 Modern Catholicism:
Vatican II and After
Hollenbach,
David. (ed.) 1994 Catholicism and Liberalism
Kohmescher, Matthew. 1999 Catholicism
Today: A Survey of Catholic Belief and Practice.
McCarthy, Timothy G. 1994 The Catholic Tradition: 1878-1993.
McBrien,
Richard. 1994 Catholicism
McBrien,
Richard. 1995 The Harper Collins
Encyclopedia of Catholicism
Neuner, J. & Dupius, J., 1982 The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents
of the Catholic Church
Newman, John Henry. 1845 An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Nichols,
Aiden. 1991 The Shape of Catholic
Theology
Taylor,
Charles et al. 1999, A Catholic
Modernity?
Dietrich
Von Hildebrand, 1960 Liturgy and Personality
Ethics in Practice EDER-494
Sexuality,
Relationships, and Marriage
Thurs 6-9: Room TBA
(Ed 434 or Newman Centre, 3484 Peel)
Daniel Cere
Offices Hours: Mon /Wed: 4-5pm.
3484 Peel, Rm.2 Tel. 398-4106
Course description
This course examines ethical responses
to the perennial problem of the sexuality and culture. The course begins with an exploration of
some dominant theories of sexuality and sexual ethics as well as religious
perspectives on sexuality and marriage.
The last part of the course focuses on current cultural developments and
debates in the domain of sexual identity and life.
Course
Requirements:
1. Annotated Bibliography. Choose
six items: a) articles/essays (2500 words or more), b) chapters of books, c)
reports, d) books (at least 2). Write a 250-word annotation/review of each
item. The 6 items should focus on one
topic area, ideally the topic of your class presentation. (Due: Oct 31) (30%)
2. Mid-Term (Oct. 24) (30%)
3. Panel Discussion: Presentation of an “executive summary” (approx. 2
pages) of a 6-8 page position paper on one of the 6 topics listed for
discussion. A written submission of
your position paper (with bibliography) (Nov. 28, Dec. 3) (30%)
4. Attendance and
Participation (10%)
Course
Readings: There is no required text
for this course. There will be a series
of Xeroxed handouts for the course ($10 to cover Xerox costs). Online readings are listed in the syllabus
and can be easily accessed from our online course guide with internet
hyperlinks (when available) go to our web site at: http://www.newmancentre.org; then
click on “academic life”; the course
password is: cathstudies. An extensive list of texts and resources
for discussion of sexual ethics and religion can be found at the Theology Library site http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/ Other helpful internet tools are: Catholic
Educator’s Resource Centre http://www.catholiceducation.org/
and Religion Online: http://www.religion-online.org/
Course Outline
1.
Sept. 5: Introduction: Sex & Ethics
2.
Sept 12: Essentialism and Social Constructionism
Summary of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality http://cgi.student.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/d95-aeh/get/foucaulteng#constructivism
Rictor Norton, “Social Contructionism” in A Critique of Social Constructionism and Postmodern Queer Theory http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/social02.htm
Jeffrey Weeks, “History,
Desire and Identities” in Conceiving Sexuality edited by Richard Parker
and John Gagnon, New York: Routledge, 1995
3.
Sept 19: The Relational Self
Law Commission of
Canada, Beyond Conjugality, ch. 2
http://www.lcc.gc.ca/en/themes/pr/cpra/chap2.asp#012e
Buber, I and Thou
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showchapter?chapter_id=380
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showchapter?chapter_id=381
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showchapter?chapter_id=393
4.
Sept. 26 History, Christianity, and
Sexuality:
Biblical Readings
on Sexuality and Conjugality: Genesis 1-3, Song of Songs, Tobit, Gospel of
Matthew, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians 5,
etc.
Lisa Cahill, “Sex,
marriage, and family in Christian Tradition”
5. Oct. 3 Contemporary
Theological Perspectives
William E. May, “The Liberating Truth of
Catholic Teaching on Sexual Morality” Homiletic
and Pastoral Review, July 1983
http://francis.veritas.org.sg/web_links/FLS/forum/The%20Liberating%20Truth.html
Catechism: # 897-913; 1601-17;
2201-13; 2331-36; 2360-79
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/matri.html#MARRIAGE
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/fourth.html#FAMILY
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/sixth.html#SIXTH
Linda Woodhead, “Sex in a Wider Context” in Sex
These Days
John Paul II Theology of the Body (commentary by C. West) http://www.theologyofthebody.net/articles/tobeducation/tobeducation1.htm
Mary Shivanandan, “John Paul II’s Theology of
the Body”
http://www.usccb.org/education/catechetics/jpiitheo.htm
6.
Oct. 10 Courtship and Marriage in Contemporary Culture
Anthony Giddens, “The Family” The Reith
Lectures, 1999
http://lse.ac.uk/Giddens/reith_99/week4/lecture4.htm
Leon R. Kass, “The End of
Courtship” Public Interest 126 (1997) 39-63
http://thepublicinterest.com/notable/article7.html
Maggie Gallagher, “The Latest War Against
Marriage” Crisis Magazine, Feb. 2001 http://www.family.org.au/journal/2001/j20010703.html
“Marriage in America” http://www.americanvalues.org/html/r-marriage_in_america.html
Why Marriage Matters? : Twenty-One Conclusions from the
Social Sciences
7. Oct. 17
Faith, Family, and Feminism
John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem “The Apostolic Letter on The Role and
Dignity of Women” 1988
Mary Anne Glendon, “Feminism and the Family”
Commonweal Feb 14, 1997
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/marriage/mf0001.html
Prudence Allen, “Integral Sex Complementarity and the Theology of Communion” Communio, 17 (1990)
7.
8 Oct. 24 MIDTERM
Conjugal Life:
Permanence, Fidelity and Procreation
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, “Dan Quayle was
Right” The Atlantic Monthly Apr
1993 http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/family/danquayl.htm
Margaret Talbot, “Love, American Style: What
the Alarmists About Divorce Don’t Get..”
Linda Waite, Don
Browning, (et al.) “Does Divorce Make People Happy?”
8.
Oct. 31 “The Heterosexual
Norm”: Debates over Same-Sex Unions
Archbishop Dionigi Teltamanzi, “Christian Anthrolopology and
Homosexuality” L’Osservatore Romano,
March 1997, p.7
http://www.ewtn.com/library/HUMANITY/homo1.htm
Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, “Homosexuality and
Catholic Doctrine” in Same-Sex
Matters edited by Christopher Wolfe,
Dallas: Spence Publishing Co. 2000
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/mar01/fabianbruskewitz.html
David Orgon Coolidge, “The Dilemma of
Same-Sex Marriage” Crisis Magazine,
14 July/August 1996)
http://www.eppc.org/publications/xq/ASP/pubsID.224/qx/pubs_viewdetail.htm
Thomas Billitteri, “Gay and Lesbian Catholics
Beg to Differ” U.S. Catholic Nov. 1997
http://www.uscatholic.org/1997/11/differ.html
“The Homosexual
Movement: A Response by the Ramsey Colloquium.” http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9403/articles/homo.html
Law Commission of
Canada, « Beyond Conjugality » ch. 4 « Marriage »
http://www.lcc.gc.ca/en/themes/pr/cpra/chap4.asp#125e
10.
Nov. 7 “The Wanted Child”: Childhood, Sexuality, and Abuse
John Richard Neuhaus,
“Scandal Time (Continued)” First
Things June/July 2002
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0206/scandal.html
Mary Eberstadt, “The Elephant in the
Sacristy” Weekly Standard, June
17, 2002
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/344fsdzu.asp
U.S. Conference of Bishops, “Charter for the Protection of Children and
Young People”
http://www.usccb.org/bishops/charter.htm June 2002.
11.
Nov. 14: Educating For Intimacy & Conjugality
Norval
Glenn. “Closed Hearts, Closed
Minds: The Textbook Story of
Marriage” 1997.
http://www.americanvalues.org/html/a-closed_hearts__closed_minds_.html
Paul
Vitz “The Course of True Love: Marriage
in High School Textbooks” 1998.
Christopher
West, “John Paul II’s Theology of the Body”
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0055.html
12. Nov. 21 : Debating Sexuality (panel discussions)
The State of our Unions : Is Marriage in Decline?
Same-Sex
Marriage?
The
Battle of the Sexes : Gender and Justice
13. Nov. 28 Debating
Sexuality (panel discussions)
Sex Education: Ethical
Guidelines?
Religion and Sex : Repressive or Redemptive?
Children and Sexuality (Liberation or Protection?)
Select Bibliography
Allen, Prudence The Concept
of Woman: 750BC--1250AD (1997)
Anderson, Herbert and Don Browning et.al. The Family Handbook
(1998)
Baker. J.
Robert. A Marriage Sourcebook (1994)
Barton, S. C. ed. The Family
in Theological Perspective (1996)
Bunge, Marcia ed. The Child in Christian Thought (2001)
Cahill, Lisa.
Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics (1996)
Caplan, Paula & J. Thinking
Critically About Research on Sex (1994)
Collins, Raymond, Sexual Ethics and the New Testament (2000)
Duby, Georges. Medieval Marriage (1978)
Foucault, Michel The History
of Sexuality, vol1. (1978)
Fuchs, Eric. Sexual Desire and Love: Origins and History
of the Christian
Ethic of Sexuality and Marriage (1993)
Hogan, Richard The Covenant of Love: John Paul II on
Sexuality, Marriage and
Family (1992)
John Paul II. The Role of the Family in the Modern World,
(1981)
John Paul II The Jeweller’s Shop (1980)
John Paul II, Love and Responsibility (1985)
John Paul II The Theology of the Body (1997)
Kass, Amy & Leon, eds. Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on
Courting and
Marrying, (200)
Kasper, Walter. Theology of Christian Marriage (1981)
Lawler, Michael. Marriage and Sacrament (1993)
Lawler, Ronald. Catholic Sexual Ethics (1985)
Leclerq, J. Marriage: a Great Sacrament (1954)
Mackin, Theodore. What is Marriage? (1982)
Mackin, Theodore. The Marital Sacrament (1989)
Malone, R. Contemporary Perspectives on Christian Marriage.
Mason, M. The Mystery of Marriage (1985)
Meyendorff, John Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective (1978)
Olsen, Glenn,
ed. Christian Marriage: A Historical Study (2001)
Osiek, Carolyn and Balch, David. Families
in the New Testament (1997)
Popenoe, David, Jean Elshtain and David Blankenhorn (eds.) Promises to Keep (1996)
Post Stephen G. Spheres of Love: Toward a New Ethics of the
Family (1994)
Roberts, William P. Commitment to
Partnership: Explorations of the Theology of
Marriage (1987)
Schillebeeckx, Edward. Marriage:
Secular Reality and Saving Mystery (1965)
Scott, K. and Michael Warren (eds.)
Perspectives on Marriage (1993)
Shivanandan, Mary, Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage in the
Light
of John Paul II’s Anthropology, (1999)
Smith, Russell (ed.) Faith and Challenges to the Family
(1994)
Waite, L. & Gallagher, M. The Case for Marriage (2000)
Wallerstein, J. The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce (2000)
