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EcumenyandLaw,no.1(2013)
pp.7—18
PawełBORtkIewIcz
AdamMickiewiczUniversityinPoznań,Poland
Marriage:TheProjectofCultureorFaith?
Keywords:marriage,culture,postmodernculture,theologyofmarriage
1.LightandDarkSidesofToday’sFamily
Amongmanysociologicalandpoliticalanalyses,thetypeofdiagnosis
ofaspecialsignificanceformoraltheologyis,forobviousreasons,theo-
logicalor,tobemoreprecise,kairologicalone.Itusesthedatagathered
byexactsciences,inthiscasepsychosocialones,tomakecommentsbased
onthosedata,inawayreachingbeyondtheempiricaldimension.Indeed,
thisdimensionisessentialandindispensabletomakethosecomments,
henceJohnPaulIIinhisenunciationsmanytimesremindsusaboutusing
exactsciencesfordefiningwhathecallsGospeldiscernment:thecall
anddemandsoftheSpiritresoundintheveryeventsofhistory
,andso
theChurchcanalsobeguidedtoamoreprofoundunderstandingofthe
inexhaustiblemysteryofmarriageandthefamilybythecircumstances,
thequestionsandtheanxietiesandhopesoftheyoungpeople,mar-
riedcouplesandparentsoftoday
.1Hehimselfmadesuchadiscernment
numeroustimesinrelationtotheconditionofthemarriageandfamily
.
Themostrepresentativeexplanationofthesecommentsisdeliveredbythe
papalexhortationFamiliarisConsortio.Yet,itisadvisabletofirstquote
apartofthecouncilconstitutionGaudiumetSpestonoticebothacon-
tinuationofcertainphenomenaaswellastheirnewfaces.TheSecond
1JOHNPaUlII:ApostolicExhortation“FamiliarisConsortio”,no.4.