Perspectives on marriage: a reader

pt. 1. Marriage in historical perspective

1. Marriage in the Bible / Michale G. Lawler

2. The primitive Christian understanding of marriage / Theodore Mackin, S.J.

3. Marriage : a historical survey / Joseph Martos

pt. 2. Contemporary perspectives on the theology of marriage

4. Christian marriage : basic sacrament / Bernard Cooke

5. "Nuptial Pentecost" : theological reflections on the presence and action of the Holy Spirit in Christian marriage / Julie McCarty

pt. 3. Marriage : meanings and transitions

6. Marriage versus living together / Jo McGowan

7. Marriage preparation and cohabiting couples : information report / NCCB Marriage and Family Committee

8. Cohabitation and marriage as a life-process / Kieran Scott

9. The meaning of a marriage / Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, James D. Whitehead

10. The meaning of marriage : of two minds / Edward C. Vacek

11. Same-sex marriage : threat or aspiration / Stephen J. Pope

12. Marriage becomes a journey / Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, James D. Whitehead

pt. 4. Attitudes toward sexuality

13. Sex matters : the riches of the Catholic sexual tradition / Sidney Callahan

14. A revolution's broken promises / Peter Marin

15. Passionate attachments in the West in historical perspective / Lawrence Stone

16. Four mischievous theories of sex : demonic, divine, casual, and nuisance / William F. May

17. The neglected heart : the emotional dangers of premature sexual involvement / Thomas Lickona

18. Sex, time, and meaning : a theology of dating / Jason King, Donna Freitas

19. Beyond romance to human love / Robert A. Johnson

20. The transmission of life / Pope John Paul II

pt. V. Communication, conflict, and change

21. How people change / Allen Wheelis

22. "Put down that paper and talk to me!" : rapport-talk and report-talk / Deborah Tannen

23. Communication and conflict / Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, James D. Whitehead

24. Communication / Thomas N. Hart, Kathleen Fischer Hart

25. The battered woman : myths and reality / Lenore E. Walker

26. Men who make women want to scream / Connell Cowan, Melvin Kinder

27. Going to the therapist en route to the altar / Zoë Wolff

pt. 6. Issues impacting marriage

28. Watching new love as it sears the brain / Benedict Carey

29. You're getting married : the Wal-Martization of the bridal business / Rebecca Mead

30. Money, marriage, and making a future : the letter to Emily / Michale Warren

pt. 7. Commitment, divorce, and annulment

31. What God has joined together... / Bernard Cooke

32. The meaning of commitment / Margaret Farley

33. Annulment : the process and its meaning / Patrick R. Lagges

34. Remarried Catholics : searching for church belonging / James J. Young

35. Divorce and remarriage in the Catholic Church : ten theses / Michael G. Lawler

36. Children after divorce : wounds that don't heal / Judith S. Wallerstein

pt. 8. Spirituality of marriage

37. Spirituality and lifestyle / Evelyn Eaton whitehead, James D. Whitehead

38. Faithful becoming : forming families in the art of paradoxical living in a fragmented and pluralistic world / Herbert Anderson

pt. 9. Religious traditions : perspectives on marriage

39. Marriage in the Jewish tradition / Blu Greenberg

40. The Protestant view of marriage / Wilson Yates

41. Marriage in Islam / Lois Lamyā' Ibsen al Faruqi.