Marriage in the New Testament

and the Theological

Understanding of Marriage
A GUIDED REVIEW TEST
QUESTION # 1
Which story in the Bible talks about marriage as a sign of Christ’s
presence?
QUESTION # 2, 3 and 4
Jesus’ teaching against divorce is emphasized on his statement
“This is why a man must leave his father and mother, and cling
to his wife and the two become _____ONE______”.

“They are no longer two but one ___FLESH_____. So then, what God
has
united no one must ______separate_____.”
QUESTION # 5
Jesus’ teaching against divorce is emphasized on his statement
“A man who divorces is wife, and then marries another, commits
_____Adultery________”.

* two issues:
➢
Not divorcing a wife
➢
Not marrying again
QUESTION # 6
Jesus, also emphasized that husbands and wife should give high regard
to marriage. The starting point should be love. While marriage is bound
to earthly reality, it also directs the couple to a higher reality, to
God’s heavenly kingdom.

Therefore, couples are called to live the virtue of

________Chastity_______.
Living purely as husbands and wives. (for priests, celibacy)
QUESTION 7 and 8
St. Paul teaches that it is not good for a man to touch any woman. To
avoid, immorality, he has to have a _______wife______, and every
woman
should have a ___husband_________.
QUESTION # 9, 10 and 11
“A husband does not have authority over his own body, but his
wife
A wife does not have authority over her own body but her
___husband_________.”

Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual

____consent________.
QUESTION # 12, 13 and 14
“ Now to the _____unmarried_________ and to the
_______widow_______, I say: it is a good thing for them to remain as
they are, as I do. But if they cannot exercise ____self-control_________
(virtue), they should marry, for it is better to marry than to be on fire.”
QUESTION # 15
If an ________partner?_______ is willing to go on living with you, do
not
divorce her/him.
For a husband is made holy by his wife, and a wife is made holy
by her husband, and so as the children.
 *
• Advice to the Married. 1 Corinthians 7:1-9
• 1Now in regard to the matters about which you wrote: “It is a good thing for a man not to touch
*
a woman,”
• 2but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman
her own husband.
• 3The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife, and likewise the wife toward her husband.
• 4A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly
a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his wife.
• 5Do not deprive each other, except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, to be free for
prayer, but then return to one another, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of
self-control.
*
• 6This I say by way of concession, however, not as a command.
*
• 7Indeed, I wish everyone to be as I am, but each has a particular gift from God, one of one
a
kind and one of another.
*
• 8 b Now to the unmarried and to widows, I say: it is a good thing for them to remain as they are,
as I do,
• 9but if they cannot exercise self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to be
on fire.
QUESTION # 16-19
ST. PAUL ON LOVE
“if I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am
a resounding _____gong_______ or a clashing ______cymbal_____.
“

“if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all knowledge, if I have
all ______faith_____ so as to move mountains but do not have
____love______, I am nothing.”
QUESTION # 16-19
16. GONG
17. CYMBAL
18. FAITH
19. LOVE
QUESTION # 16-19
Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, it is not envious, it is not inflated. It is not rude.
It does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does
not brood over injury.
It does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all thing, endures all things.
QUESTION # 20-23
“So _____faith_________, ____hope________, ______love________
remains. But the ____greatest_________ of them all is love.
QUESTION # 24
• Who defined the goods of marriage; Proles, Fides, Sacramentum?
After St. Augustine converted to the Catholic Faith and his eventual
election as the Bishop of Hippo, he wrote several treatises on
marriage wherein he defines the “goods of marriage”
QUESTION # 25
• Which good of marriage is being defined here ---

• “Marriage is good by virtue of the very reason for which it was

instituted: for the propagation of the human species, and this is
made possible by the conjugal act.”

PROLES(PROCREATION)
QUESTION # 26
• the good of marriage whereby the couple remains faithful to each
other as well as offer mutual service to each other, mutual service of
sustaining one another’s weaknesses in order to shun unlawful
intercourse

FIDES(FIDELITY)
QUESTION # 27
Refers to the indissolubility of marriage as well as the
monogamous reality of the married relationship.
Augustine identified the symbolic character of the marital union to
the relationship of Christ to the Church.
There is in the nuptial bond a permanent character that cannot be
dissolved either by separation or by union with another, save by the
death of either the husband or the wife.

SACRAMENTUM
QUESTION # 28
Who expounded on marriage as a natural institution and as
a sacrament?

St. Thomas Aquinas

QUESTION # 29-30
What are the ends of marriage?

Offspring
QUESTION # 31-32
What are the natural properties of marriage?

PERMANENCE(INDISSOLUBILITY), UNITY(EXCLUSIVENESS)
QUESTION # 32
• Marriage is a ________SACRAMENT___________ insofar as “it
denotes a sanctifying remedy against sin, offered to man under
sensible signs”
QUESTION # 33
the essential element for the entrance into the marriage state

Matrimonial Consent
QUESTION # 34
• To St. Thomas, this act is integral to marriage

Marital Act
THEOLOGICAL
UNDERSTANDING OF
MARRIAGE
• The following are salient points in the teaching of the Council:

1. Marriage is a divine institution and was elevated by Christ to the level of the
sacrament. (gives grace for the spouses)
2. The unity and indissolubility of marriage and its character sanctifying the
spouses. (defined during Protestant Reformation who sought to justify divorce)
3. The power of the Church over the sacrament of marriage. (entrusted by Christ to the
Church)
4. The requirement of canonical form as determined by the Church. (requirements for
the validity of marriage)
QUESTION # 35
Alphonsus Liguori taught emphatically that ____conjugal act_______ Is
an expression of genuine love and indissoluble faithfulness, it is in
itself honorable.
QUESTION # 36
• A landmark in the development of the theology of marriage was the
encyclical “Casti Conubii” by Pius XI in 1930. This was a reaction to a
historical decision of the Anglican bishops to separate the
procreative and unitive ends of marriage by allowing
_____contraception_______
QUESTION # 37
Pope Pius XII He defined the ________marital act______ as the personal
action of the spouses:
QUESTION # 38

Vatican II, through Gaudium et Spes, defines ____marriage________ as

“the
intimate partnership of married life and love established by the
Creator, qualified by His laws, and is rooted in the conjugal covenant of
irrevocable consent.”
HOSEA THE MOVIE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7wHoafxLUY
 1. What did God command Hosea to do? (in relation to the
rd
3 child)
What reason is given for this instruction?
How is the command related to Hosea and Gomer’s life?

2. Explain the similarity between an adulterous wife and the

sins of Israel.

HOSEA
THE
MOVIE
3. What is the root sin of the wife of Hosea that engendered
into another sin which is adultery?

4. How does the story of Hosea speak about love and mercy?
CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF
MARRIAGE
• Marriage as a contract
• Marriage as a covenant
• Marriage as a sacrament
• As sign and symbol
• As sign of the saving presence of Christ
• As saving grace
• As celebration
• Marriage as a vocation