Świętość i sakramentalność małżeństwa w myśli Jana Chryzostoma

• Authors: Marcin Wysocki

Title variants

EN

Marriage as holy and sacramental in John Chrysostom’s thought

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, in his works as one of the first Church Fathers, spoke a lot about marriage. First of all, Christian matrimony, according to his teaching, was the unity of the bodies from whom the commu­nion of two person – man and woman – follows. The unity and uniqueness were the essential features of the matrimony. Only true love, which comes from God, can build true unity of husband and wife. That’s why Chrysostom calls matri­mony „sacrament (mysterion) of love”. Greek word „mysterion” has in John Chrystosom’s works two meanings: mystery of marriage and mysterious activity of God. Because Holy God is the creator of matrimony it can be called holy and sacred.

Keywords

PL

Jan Chryzostom; małżeństwo

EN

John Chrysostom; marriage

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 53
• Pages: 145-157

Dates

published

2009-12-15

Contributors

author

Marcin Wysocki

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.4461