How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments The Sacramental Theology of Marriage from Its Medieval Origins to the Council of Trent

includes index and biblioraphy

Marriage as a Sacrament...............1 I. Augustine Marriage in Augustine`s Writings ..........101 Bonum prolis, bonum Fidei: The utility of Marriage ..............120 Bonum sacramenti: The sanctity and insolubility of Marriage .............134 II Getting married: Betrothal, Consent, and Consummation Betrothal and Consent .............157 Consummation .........209 From competing theories to common doctrine in the twelfth century .................244 III. the Twelfth Century: Origins and early development of the sacramental Theology of Marriage ..............289 Introduction to the sentential Literature on Marriage ..........291 The theology of Mariage in the sententiae ....................317 Hugh of saint - Victor .................362 The early doctrine of Marriage as one of the sacraments ...............405 IV. The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries : Development of the Classical Doctrine ..............459 Marriage as union ............461 Scholastic Sexual Ethics ...............515 Marriage as a sacrament...............556 The Question of Grace ...........623 Human Contract and divine sacrament.............667 V. The council of Trent ..........725 On the eve of the General Council ...................727 The sacrament of Marriage at bologna and trent ............804 Clandestine marriage : Bologna, 1547...........848 Clandestine marriage : Trent, 1563.............896