Marriage, sacrament and daily life
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This article by Nicolas Lossky focuses on Christian marriage considered both as a sacrament of the Church and as a reality lived out on a daily basis. Drawing on a pastoral and theological approach, it seeks to articulate the sacramental dimension of marriage with the concrete demands of conjugal and family life. The central idea is that marriage constitutes, for Christian spouses, a path of anticipated experience of the Kingdom of God, accessible from earthly existence onward. The contribution of the article lies in the way it translates an Orthodox ecclesiology of marriage into accessible terms rooted in contemporaneity, illustrated by examples drawn from ordinary life. In doing so, Lossky contributes to renewing reflection on Orthodox sacramental theology by showing how the sacrament of marriage engages the totality of human existence within an eschatological perspective.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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