The Marital Sacrament

includes index and biblioraphy

The Nature of the Sacracment........5 The origin of a Sacrament in the Hebrew Scriptures .................24 Sources of the Sacrament in the New testament ...........59 Marriage and the Sacrament until Nicaea ............83 The Sacrament in the Post-Nicaean Church ........137 Ambrose, Augustine and the Sacrament in Marriage .........190 The sacrament in an age of Transition .........232 The Sacrament in the Early Scholastics .......274 Marriage and the Major Medieval Theologians 1230-1330...............325 Reformation challenge and Catholic Reaction .............379 The secularization of Marriage and the Catholic Reaction ...........450 Catholic Teaching in the nineteenth and Twentienth Centuries ...........516 Theologians and the Sacrament in the Nineteenth and twentieth centuries .............578 Current catholic Theology of the Sacrament and critical Reflections ...................626